The world is made up of facts, not things.

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.

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

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.