From R.H. Blyth: “A paradox is not a kind of pun, to be resolved by explaining the double meaning of the word. It does not spring from a desire to mystify the hearers or oneself. It arises from the inability of language to say two things at once “
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Quote of the day 11/21/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “All philosophy is ‘Critique of Language.’ Russell’s merit is to have shown that the apparent logical form of the proposition need not be its real form.”
Quote of the day 11/20/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Most propositions and questions that have been written about philosophical matters are not false, but senseless. We can not, therefore, answer questions of this kind at all, but only state their senselessness. Most questions and propositions of the philosophers result from the fact that we do not understand the logic of ourContinue reading “Quote of the day 11/20/24”
Quote of the day 11/19/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
Quote of the day 11/15/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
Quote of the day 09/16/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
Quote of the day 09/14/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Music conveys to us itself!”
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.”
