Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.