Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

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.

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

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.