The world is independent of my will.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

There can never be surprises in logic.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.