Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.
The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
I am my world.
The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
The world is made up of facts, not things.
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.
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