It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.
Ludwig WittgensteinIt is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
Ludwig WittgensteinI might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.
Ludwig WittgensteinDon't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Ludwig WittgensteinI am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.
Ludwig WittgensteinThe truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.
Ludwig Wittgenstein