A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

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

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

I am my world.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.