We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.