A confession has to be part of your new life.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

A picture is a fact.

The face is the soul of the body.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.