I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.