'A whole world of pain is contained in these words.' How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up with them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow. |
(on Sartre) Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself. |
A confession has to be part of your new life. |
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. |
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. |
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. |
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring |
A picture is a model of reality. |
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. |
At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded |
At the end of reasons comes persuasion |
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical. |
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. |
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. |
For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language. |