Don't treat your common sense like an umbrella. When you come into a room to philosophize, don't leave it outside but bring it in with you.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

The older I grow, the more I realize how terribly difficult it is for people to understand each other, and I think that what misleads one is the fact that they all look so much like each other. If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn’t expect them to understand each other and things would look much more like what they really are.