“When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.”

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

“If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.”

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”

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