Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

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

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

There can never be surprises in logic.