From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
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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.”
Quote of the day 09/04/24
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”
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.”
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