When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to … - Ludwig Wittgenstein

A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

"It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.