Truth

Ultimately, every 'reality' of the life-world is something only meant by something non-reality.

Philosophy as science is completable, in principle at least.

The first prerequisite for the perception of the truth is concentration.

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

There is nothing outside the text.

It is inevitable that ideology should continue to exist, even if one does not believe in it.

Problems are not always solvable, but the capacities we have for dealing with them can be real, even though they are different from what philosophers or theologians have imagined.

Rigid exclusiveness has always been criticized by liberals, and rightly so. But nowadays many people, sincerely attached to liberal values, are using these very values to suppress anything that goes against their beliefs, or rather, anything that they believe is against their beliefs.

Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy-tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

The aim of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Science does not think.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Language is the house of Being.

Happiness is an illusion, the feeling of power is the most real fact.

The first thing necessary in a good is that it should exist.

I prefer to be mad with the truth than sane with falsehood.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.