"There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."
"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."