“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image