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

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

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

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.