Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.
The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.