Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc.,etc.… — 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