“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
I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view. — 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
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain — 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
