Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein Download Open image ““It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.”” — Ludwig Wittgenstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“and though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest reality always has something shocking about it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The world is awful, yes, but it is not only awful. It is wonderful as well.” — Matt Rogers Copy Share Image
“Then, dramatically, all of a sudden, totally out of nowhere, and to my utter astonishment, absolutely nothing happens.” — James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“It is not the world that has changed, merely my understanding of it.” — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The world is more random than we can imagine. That's what our emotions can't understand.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.” — Isaac Marion 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
