Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.
Philosophy of language
Philosophical Investigations, Part I, 18
1953 (posthumous)
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