If We Couldn't Laugh At

We Depend On Our Words... Our Task Is To Communicate Experience And Ideas To Others. We Must Strive Continually To Extend The Scope Of Our Description, But In Such A Way That Our Messages Do Not Thereby Lose Their Objective Or Unambiguous Character... We Are Suspended In Language In Such A Way That We Cannot Say What Is Up And What Is Down. The Word "reality" Is Also A Word, A Word Which We Must Learn To Use Correctly.

Oh What Idiots We Have All Been, This Is Just As It Must Be

When It Comes To Atoms, Language Can Be Used Only As In Poetry. The Poet, Too, Is Not Nearly So Concerned With Describing Facts As With Creating Images And Establishing Mental Connections.

Sometimes The Child In One Behaves A Certain Way And The Rest Of Oneself Follows Behind, Slowly Shaking Its Head.

Some Subjects Are So Serious That One Can Only Joke About Them.