What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit… — 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
“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
