Philosophy in its very act is a process of translation!

The educated man is the man who does not live in immediate intuition, but in his recollection so that little is new to him any longer.

Like literature, philosophy is not distinguished from other subjects by a specific approach to a subject-matter independent of it. Chemistry deals with chemicals, biology with life and astronomy with very large, very distant objects. Philosophy can boast no such definite subject-matter.

To say that all philosophy is writing is, minimally, to say that it is never the transparent expression of thought.

Philosophy is said to have taken the 'linguistic turn' in this century. One hundred years ago, a philosopher would think in terms of mind, spirit, experience, consciousness; now the by-word is language.

To recognize a difficulty is not to solve it.

Language steps in where the angels of experience fear to tread.

Philosophy is an everlasting fire, sometimes damped down by setting itself limits, then flaring into new life as it consumes them. Every field of inquiry is limited, but philosophy has an essential relation to the question of limits, to its own limits.