That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.