Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

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

We learn by rearranging what we know.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

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