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

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?