Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

A picture is a model of reality.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

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.