From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how natural these things are to us. We do not notice that we see space perspectivally or that our visual field is in some sense blurred towards the edges.Continue reading “Quote of the day 09/04/24”
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Quote of the day 09/03/24
From Hegel: “We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
Quote of the day 09/02/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”
Quote of the day 09/01/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”
Quote of the day 08/31/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Language disguises thought.”
Quote of the day 08/30/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”
Quote of the day 08/29/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
Quote of the day 08/28/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
Quote of the day 08/27/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Quote of the day 08/26/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
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