“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
“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
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. — 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
My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . . — 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 them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection of a word with an object. -- And such a strange connection really obtains, particularly when a philosopher tries to fathom _the_ relation between name and what is named by staring at an object in front… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
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
