It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. - Ludwig Wittgenstein 1 Share Now -
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. - Ludwig Wittgenstein 2 Share Now -
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. - Ludwig Wittgenstein 3 Share Now -
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. - Ludwig Wittgenstein 4 Share Now -
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. - Ludwig Wittgenstein 5 Share Now -
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. - Ludwig Wittgenstein 6 Share Now -
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. - Ludwig Wittgenstein 7 Share Now -
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. - Ludwig Wittgenstein 9 Share Now -
