The activities of a philosopher

Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities : to see commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the commonsense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
(Wittgenstein)

The point of Philosophy

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
(Bertrand Russell)