My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

A picture is a model of reality.

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.