Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.