America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it. - Ernest Gellner

The idea that some of the members of the smooth, bland variety of second generation of linguistic philosophers undergo ”perplexity”, let alone intellectual cramp, has an element of high comedy.

Dr J. O. Wisdom once observed to me that he knew people who thought there was no philosophy after Hegel, and others who thought there was none before Wittgenstein; and he saw no reason for excluding the possibility that both were right.

Primitive man has lived twice: once in and for himself, and the second time for us, in our reconstruction.