“At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.”

“Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.”

“Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.”

“If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.”

“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.”

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

“What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.”