Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Simplicity
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But ordinary language is all right. (p. 28)
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The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something - because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. - And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful. (129)
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (p. 76e)
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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.