It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. |
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. |
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' |
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. |
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. |
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. |
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it |
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. |
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. |
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that. |
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. |
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. |
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' |
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is |
Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only |