"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote"
"Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand."
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Source: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”
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