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

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.