Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

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.

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

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

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

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.