One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.