The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Category Archive: 1889
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don’t know my way about.