A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
It seems to me that in every culture I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities all is vanity.'
It seems to me that in every culture I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities all is vanity.'
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today if only we had eyes to see them.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today if only we had eyes to see them.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
It is so characteristic that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
It is so characteristic that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.