If we hear a Chinese we tend to take his speech for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize <i>language</i> in what he … - 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 connection between art and ethics.

The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside.

In such a way that they have the whole world as background.

Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time - but how can I be a logician before I'm a human being! Far the most important thing is to settle accounts with myself!

What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one could say — forms of life.