“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”

“I am my world.”

“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that thats a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fel...”

“Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are consider...”

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”

“Often its not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”

“Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”