One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

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

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

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

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.