If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who… — 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
People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse… — 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
“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
