The world is independent of my will.

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

The world is everything that is the case.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote