Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

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.