Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

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

If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.