Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.

The world is independent of my will.

That the world is, is the mystical.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.