Well, it is tring to get at a mystery …

… For Wittgenstein, Philosophy Had to Be as Complicated as the Knots it Unties | Literary Hub. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“When a sentence is called senseless,” he said, “a combination of words is being excluded from the language, withdrawn from circulation,” and “it is not as it were its sense that is senseless.” But we cannot appreciate what we have achieved unless we find some way to commemorate our lost illusions and “get a clear view of the . . . state of affairs before the contradiction was resolved”—a task that called for imagination, tact and poetic skill rather than quick-witted cleverness.