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| Ludwig Wittgenstein
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 push. A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. We could say that the limits of language are the limits of the world… that the limits of my language are the limits of my world. And in that respect, whatever I say must limit the world, must make it finite.You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. |
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