Quote #89
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. (p. 75e)
More from Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings. (p. 67e)
- Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (p. 76e)
- Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. (p. 56e)
- Ambition is the death of thought. (p. 77e)
- [From Kierkegaard]: 'I never believed in God before.' - that I understand. But not: 'I never really believed in Him before.' (p. 53e)
- 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)
- Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion. (p. 53e)
- Frazer's account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors. (p. 119)