The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The philosopher treats a question; like an illness.

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man — but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.