Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

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.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.