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.

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 I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.