Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Psychology
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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 what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. (p. 34e)
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. (p. 123)
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When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind. (p. 137)
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.