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 WittgensteinWe are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
Ludwig WittgensteinA picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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