"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 ac… - Ludwig Wittgenstein

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.