“Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?”

“You sometimes see in a wind a piece of paper blowing about anyhow. Suppose the piece of paper could make the decision: ‘Now I want to go this way.’ I say: ‘Queer, this paper always decides where it is to go, and all the time it is the wind that blows it. I know it is the wind that blows it.’ That same force which moves it also in a different way moves its decisions.”

“The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”

“Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

“What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.”

“This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit -not a part of the world.[...]If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.”