Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language. #109

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. #6

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. #116

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?' (p.19…

We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers: one saying to the other: 'you don't kno…

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thi…

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it …