Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.