"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~












I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
More Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes
"The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
"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 e...
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
"How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
"But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.
"It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves
"We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We...
"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest im...
"I am my world.
"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...
"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...
"Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
"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.