Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

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

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.