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

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~












A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
More Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes
"The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
"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
"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)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
"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 t...
"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
"There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradi...