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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.