It somehow worries us that the thought in a sentence is not wholly present at any one moment. We regard it as an object which we are making and have never got all there , for no sooner does one part appear than another vanishes.


Wittgenstein, Ludwig.Zettel , trans. G.E.M. Anscombe, ed. G.E.M. Anscombe & G.H. von Wright. University of California Press, 1967.