Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
From Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
The face is the soul of the body.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
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