"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something—because it is always before one's eyes.)"

"The great difficulty is to realize that it is not I who am thinking, but the language which is thinking in me."

"Not to understand a grammar is to be unable to understand an idiom."

"What we are supplying are really remarks on the natural history of human beings; we are not contributing curiosities however, but observations which no one has doubted, but which have escaped remark o…"

"What is good is also divine. Peculiar as it may sound, that sums up my ethics."