Analysis is always a danger. When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

Analysis is an excuse to take something to pieces to see how it works.

Analysis is the dividing of things according to perspectives taken.

Analysis is the act of bringing different representations under one conception.

Comparison is no proof.

Comparison is painful — Bats feel proud in the absence of birds

Comparison is the essence of all judgement — Nothing is good or bad but by comparison.

Comparison is natural — after visiting another man's house one notices rotten beams in one's own.

Context is everything — a handsaw is a good thing, but not to shave with

Context is everything. In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Context is that which cannot even exist before its own emergence. As an analytic it is part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

Context matters — Don't use an axe to embroider.

Discussion is distinguished from argument in this: discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Discussion is the sieve of the truth.

Discussion is an exchange of intelligence; argument is an exchange of ignorance.