Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

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.

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

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).