We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
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.
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
Aim at being loved without being admired.
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.
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
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.
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).
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.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
Ambition is the death of thought.
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 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.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
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