A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
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A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
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