There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?