We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just… — 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
![“Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.” quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/051/ludwig-wittgenstein-582_december_schiller-writes-in-a-letter-to-goethe-17_1906986.jpg)
