Quote #88

Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings. (p. 67e)

More from Ludwig Wittgenstein

  1. Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. (p. 56e)
  2. It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. (p. 75e)
  3. [From Kierkegaard]: 'I never believed in God before.' - that I understand. But not: 'I never really believed in Him before.' (p. 53e)
  4. Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (p. 76e)
  5. Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion. (p. 53e)
  6. Ambition is the death of thought. (p. 77e)
  7. A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than p…
  8. To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth. (p. 119)

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