"Genius is not cleverness. Schopenhauer says: 'A man can be a genius without having produced anything at all.' And he is right. The genius is the one who has vision."

"The real discovery is the one that makes me capable of stopping doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself …"

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

"It is not by any means clear to me, that I wish for a continuation of my life."