Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?
Ludwig WittgensteinOne can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
Ludwig WittgensteinA wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
Ludwig WittgensteinI give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
Ludwig Wittgenstein