Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended.… — 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
