If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

There is nothing to be known about anything except an initially large, and forever expandable, web of relations to other things. Everything that can serve as a term of relation can be dissolved into another set of relations, and so on for ever. There are, so to speak, relations all the way down, all the way up, and all the way out in every direction: you never reach something which is not just one more nexus of relations.