» It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
» If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
» A confession has to be part of your new life.
» 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.
» A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
» Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
» The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
» A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
» It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
» Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.