To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.