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.
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
Aim at being loved without being admired.
What can be shown, cannot be said.
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).
How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
Ambition is the death of thought.
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.
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.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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.
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.
What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
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