„So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.“

— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„It seems to me almost impossible to work in Paris [he just left Paris] unless one has some place of retreat where one can revive oneself and get back one's tranquility and poise. Without that one would get hopelessly brutalized.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is "libertarian". People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable and, to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy.“
— George Carlin
„If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?“
— Ernest Hemingway
„And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.“
— Sarah Waters