Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly… — 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
All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we… — 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
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most… — 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
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The… — 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
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