Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.