A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
Golden is a surface colour.
A color which would be ‘dirty’ if it were the color of a wall, needn’t be so in a painting.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain.
White must be the lightest color in a picture.
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.
One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.
Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.
Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.