"I never believed in God before." — that I understand. But not: "I never really believed in Him before."
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Ordinary language is all right.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Aim at being loved without being admired.
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
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Philosophizing is: rejecting false arguments. The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
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A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
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