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?

If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

The face is the soul of the body.

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