in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life.
Send
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.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (I. E. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.
Send
I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
Send
A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says "Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don't make sense at all."
Send
I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
Send
For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.
Send