Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.
Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.
Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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