You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.