“The meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

To believe in God is to see that life has meaning

I am my world.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Don’t think, but look!

Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

The face is the soul of the body.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

A nothing will serve just as well as something about which nothing could be said.

This is how philosophers should salute each other, Take your time.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

In art, it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars… We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

According to the United Nations’ latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.

My stories do have plot. They’re not just scattered language; they’re controlled, toward an end.

There is no ‘cat language.’ Painful as it is for us to admit, they don’t need one!

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.