If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.
Ludwig WittgensteinI 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.
Ludwig WittgensteinIf in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.
Ludwig WittgensteinDon't think, but look! (PI 66)
Ludwig WittgensteinTags: philosophy carpe-diem wittgenstein
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?
Ludwig WittgensteinNever stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig WittgensteinFor an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.
The riddle does not exist.
If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
Ludwig WittgensteinIt is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
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