3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein 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.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
3 December 2020 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.’
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein 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.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein 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.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein 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.
