Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

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

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.

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

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .