Quote #60
1. If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
More from Ludwig Wittgenstein
- If a lion could talk, we could not understand him (II, xi; p. 223 of the 1968 English edn.)
- 94. But I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its corre…
- So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay. (470)
- 144. The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of wha…
- Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays? (467)
- 205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.
- What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life.
- 206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say 'yes' to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say 'I can't give you any groun…