When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.
Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.
Aim at being loved without being admired.
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
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