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 oneโs eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all
Ludwig WittgensteinMost of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
Ludwig Wittgenstein'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.
Ludwig Wittgenstein