There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

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

It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself