Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i.e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is… — 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
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
. only of a living human being and what resembles (behaves like) a living human being can one say: it has sensations;… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
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
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life . — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time. — 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
What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but… — 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
“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
“I am now in another hole, though I have to say, it is no better than the old one. Living with human… — 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
“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