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

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas. That is what makes him a philosopher.

One cannot make people good by forcing them to be free. Freedom is not the absence of obstacles, but the presence of alternatives.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

It is easy to be certain. The difficulty is to doubt.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

The history of philosophy is not a museum of opinions but a dialogue on the deepest problems of human existence.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the over-examined life is not lived at all.