It is love that believes the resurrection.
The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
Don’t ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
I’m doing philosophy like an old woman, first I’m looking for my pencil, then I’m looking for my glasses, then I’m looking for my pencil again.
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.
What is thinkable is also possible.
I won’t say ‘See you tomorrow’ because that would be like predicting the future, and I’m pretty sure I can’t do that.
I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
Man is the microcosm: I am my world.
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
We just do not see how very specialized the use of “I know” is.