He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

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

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.