1. “The problems are solved not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
2. “A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.”
3. “If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
4. “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
5. “A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”
6. “Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”
7. “Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
8. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
9. “Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.”
10. “One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I’.”
11. “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
12. “If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.”
13. “The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
14. “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
15. “We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
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