When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connexion between art and ethics.

I should have liked to produce a good book. It has not turned out that way, but the time is past in which I could improve it.

"Fare well!" "A whole world of pain is contained in these words." How can it be contained in them? — It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.