One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
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If someone asked us "but is that true?" We might say "yes" to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say "I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same."
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My difficulty is only an enormous difficulty of expression.
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What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved, it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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