From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.”
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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 09/06/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.”
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 08/24/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
Quote of the day 08/23/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
Quote of the day 08/20/24
From Jack London: “Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.”
Quote of the day 08/14/24
From John Steinbeck: “No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
Quote of the day 08/01/24
From George Berkeley: “I know what I mean by the term I and myself; and I know this immediately, or intuitively, though I do not perceive it as I perceive a triangle, a colour, or a sound.”
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