“حينما نفكر في مستقبل العالم، فنحن نعني الغاية التي سيصلها إذا ماواصل السير في الإتجاه الذي نراه يسير فيه الأن، ولا يخطر لنا أن مساره ليس خطا مستفيما، بل هو منحنى، يغير على الدوام من اتجاهه.”

“و العالم الذي نراه ليس هو العالم الحقيقي، إنما هو عالم اصطلاحي بحت نعيش فيه متعلقين في الرموز الذي خلقها عقلنا ليدلنا على الأشياء التي لا يعرف ماهية أو كنها”

“To believe in God is to see that life has meaning”

“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.”

“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved.”

“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”

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