I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
Ludwig WittgensteinEvery sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?
Ludwig WittgensteinAsk yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.
Ludwig Wittgenstein