The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

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

Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.