A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

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.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

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

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.