Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

A picture is a model of reality.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

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.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.