From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Music conveys to us itself!”
Author Archives: Kevin Warstadt
Quote of the day 09/13/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
Quote of the day 09/12/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”
Quote of the day 09/11/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
Quote of the day 09/10/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
Quote of the day 09/09/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”
Quote of the day 09/08/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his inquiry do not strike a man at all.”
Quote of the day 09/07/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “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.”
Quote of the day 09/06/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.”
Quote of the day 09/05/24
From Ludwig 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.”