I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.