§ 129
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Context: 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.
Source: The Limits of Atheism: Or, Why Should Sceptics be Outlaws? 1874, p. 15
Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 36
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
In this work are exhibited in a very high degree the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ~ Samuel Johnson, "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Lives of the English Poets (1781) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lvpc10.txt
Misattributed
Source: after 1970, posthumous, Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics', 1990, p. 168
“The spiritual and emotional aspects of art are perhaps their most important qualities.”
The World in Six Songs (2008)
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
Susan Schneider and Max Velmans (2008). "Introduction". In: Max Velmans, Susan Schneider. The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Wiley.
Source: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, p. 90
“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.”
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)
Keynote speech at Christian Management Association conference in Denver, Colorado (March 2006)
