about the quoted person:

american novelist, essayist and philosopher. she was born in New York City in 1933. She received her B.

A. from the College of the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology. Her books include four novels, THE BENEFACTOR, DEATH KIT, THE VOLCANO LOVER, and IN AMERICA; a collection of short stories, a play, and six works of nonfiction, one of them ON PHOTOGRAPHY and ILLNESS AS METAPHOR. Her stories and essays have appeared in THE NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, ART IN AMERICA, ANTAEUS, PARNASSUS, THE THREEPENNY REVIEW, THE NATION, GRANTA, and many other magazines here and abroad.

A human rights activist for more than two decades, Sontag served from 1987 to 1989 as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers' organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers.this quote is strongly influenced by the first theory of analytic philosopher ludwig wittgenstein, who stated that the task of philosophy is not to solve problems, but to destroy them: all philosophical problems arise because of the vagueness of language. we don't need to search for an answer, but we should analyse language. the philosophical problems then will dissapear.