Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don’t have to fear for what’s in it.
To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.
You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn’t the indistinct one often what we need?
The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Russell’s books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red – and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue – and no one should be allowed to read them.
What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images...
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
All I know is what I have words for.