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.
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.