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

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

The same operation which makes “q” from “p”, makes “r” from “q”, and so on. This can only be expressed by the fact that “p”, “q”, “r”, etc., are variables which give general expression to certain formal relations.

471. It is so difficult to find the beginning. Or, better: it is difficult to begin and the beginning. And not try to go further back.