What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
Ludwig WittgensteinIt is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig WittgensteinThe aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
Ludwig WittgensteinSuppose 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 Wittgenstein