The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.