4 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Simplicity

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes on simplicity

39. But ordinary language is all right. (p. 28)

52. 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)

90. Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (p. 76e)

111. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.