What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? - Ludwig Wittgenstein

A main source of our failure to understand is that we don’t have an overview of the use of our words. – Our grammar is deficient in surveyability. A surveyable representation produces precisely that kind of understanding which consists in ‘seeing connections’. …
The concept of a surveyable representation is of fundamental significance for us. It characterizes the way we represent things, how we look at matters. (Is this a ‘Weltanschauung’?)

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

I squander untold effort making an arrangement of my thoughts that may have no value whatever.