Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.