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.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.