Philosophy (n.) is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: Each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Philosophy (n.) is not a theory but an activity.
Philosophy (n.) is that exercise of putting everything before us. It neither explains nor deduces anything. Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain, for what is hidden, for example, is of no interest to us.
Philosophy (n.) is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Philosophy (n.) is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
Philosophy (n.) is a field whose problems arise when language goes on holiday.
Philosophy (n.) is a domain in which the race goes to the one who can run slowest, the one who crosses the finish line last.
Philosophy (n.) aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Philosophy (n.) unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
Philosophy (n.) is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Philosophy (n.) is not mostly false; it is mostly senseless.