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 WittgensteinIf 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.
Ludwig WittgensteinA wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
Ludwig WittgensteinA main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
Ludwig Wittgenstein