Aim at being loved without being admired.
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
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.
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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.
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.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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 cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
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.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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 is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
The world is everything that is the case.
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