When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

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

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

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