A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.