No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

Language

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Logic

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

Philosophers and Philosophy

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

Progress

Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only

Silence

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Thoughts and Thinking

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Vocabulary

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

Words

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.