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.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.