It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
Philosophy is for the few.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail.
All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.