“The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.”

“There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.”

“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.”

“Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic”

“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.”

“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all”

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