Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.