The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Ludwig WittgensteinTelling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
Ludwig WittgensteinI am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.
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 WittgensteinThere is a truth in Schopenhauerโs view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say โLetโs get a rough ideaโ, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.
Ludwig Wittgenstein