“You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself”

“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”

“If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.”

“Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this language. And in different surroundings the institution of money doesn’t exist either.”

“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”

“I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church....Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.”