What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.

Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.

One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"

I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

Who rules our symbols, rules us.