I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent." — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him off to sleep again.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how… — 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
The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their… — 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
Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics. I would almost like to talk… — 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
![“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible number of primitive natural laws; and, in mathematics, of unifying the treatment of different topics by using a…” quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/088/ludwig-wittgenstein-582_ludwig-wittgenstein_our-craving-for-generality-has-as-one-so_2998590.jpg)
