You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.