Famous Quotes | Every sign by itself seems dead....

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?—In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?—Or is the use its life? - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Attribution: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian-British philosopher. Trans. by G.E.M. Anscombe, Blackwell, second edition (1958). Philosophical Investigations, I, par. 432 (1953).

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