When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

That the world is, is the mystical.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.