compiled by Axel Gelfert
- “Can you see through a wall? Can you see through human skin? X-rays see through solid – or so-called solid – objects. There are things in life that exist, and yet our eyes cannot see them.”
- “A drunken man walks in a way that is quite impossible for a sober man to imitate, and vice versa.”
- “Why can’t a dog simulate pain? Is he too honest? Could one teach a dog to simulate pain?”
- “As above, so below. The human being finds himself, or herself, in the middle. There is as much space outside the human, proportionately, as inside.”
- “You can never get outside it; you must always turn back. There is no outside; outside you cannot breathe.”
- “Suppose that at certain intervals situations repeated themselves, and that someone said time was circular. Would this be right or wrong? Neither.”
- “In a dream, are all the characters really you – different aspects of you? Do answers come in dreams?”
- “Letters are symbols. They are building blocks of words which form our languages. Languages help us communicate. Even with complicated languages used by intelligent people, misunderstanding is a common occurrence.”
- “Think of the picture of blindness as a darkness in the soul or in the head of the blind man.”
- “Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion.”
- “I suddenly see the solution of a puzzle-picture. Before, there were branches there; now there is a human shape.”
- “This of course is only a temporary solution to a problem which is going to keep returning, and sometimes these temporary solutions are worse for us than the original problem.”
- “Is this language somehow too coarse and material for what we want to say? Then how is another one to be constructed? – And how strange that we should be able to do anything at all with the one we have!”
- “Sometimes jokes are welcome. Like the one about the kid who said: ‘I enjoyed school. It was just the principal of the thing.’”
- “Can I not say: a cry, a laugh, are full of meaning? And that means, roughly: much can be gathered from them.”
- “If we look at a river in which numbered logs are floating, we can describe events on land with reference to these: for example, ‘When the 105th log passed, I ate dinner’.”
- “It all comes out now, flowing like a river: that which is, and is not.”
- “Why, suppose one were to say: the cow chews its food and then dungs the rose with it, so the rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast. This would not be absurd.”
- “Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.”
- “You know about death; that it is just a change, not an end.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein: 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19
The Log Lady: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 20.
Two thoughts: 1. This is hilarious and has brightened my Friday considerably. 2. This is way harder than I initially expected
Posted by: Sam Duncan | 10/06/2017 at 06:08 PM