Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

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).

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.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.