If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

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

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.