“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”

“Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.”

“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

“There can never be surprises in logic.”

“What I called jottings would not be a rendering of the text, not so to speak a translation with another symbolism. The text would not be stored up in the jottings. And why should it be stored up in our nervous system?”

“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

“That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how natural these things are to us. We do not notice that we see space perspectivally or that our visual field is in some sense blurred towards the edges. It doesn’t strike us and never can strike us because it is the way we perceive. We never give it a thought and it’s impossible we should, since there is nothing that contrasts with the form of our world.What I wanted to say is it’s strange that those who ascribe reality only to things and not to our ideas move about so unquestioningly in the world as idea and never long to escape from it.”