Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.