It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness. Ludwig Wittgenstein intellect madness ifs I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around. Ludwig Wittgenstein landscape details way If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time. Ludwig Wittgenstein unending live-in-the-present eternity "Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it. Ludwig Wittgenstein true-and-false arrows doe It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all. Ludwig Wittgenstein nexus clear Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself. Ludwig Wittgenstein writing mean thinking My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one. Ludwig Wittgenstein written important two Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. Ludwig Wittgenstein sound want philosophy The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness. Ludwig Wittgenstein untruthfulness doe home If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained. Ludwig Wittgenstein deals ifs A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can. Ludwig Wittgenstein errors religious laughing Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves. Ludwig Wittgenstein understanding practice spiritual We must plow through the whole of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein language whole What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life . Ludwig Wittgenstein accepted given form Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them. Ludwig Wittgenstein mathematical-logic philosophy book You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth. Ludwig Wittgenstein giving-up telling-the-truth lying One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way. Ludwig Wittgenstein ugly age way Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous. Ludwig Wittgenstein done needs thinking If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings. Ludwig Wittgenstein surroundings want needs We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is. Ludwig Wittgenstein use knows knowledge
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