Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture And Value Quotes
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.
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 picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.
What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.
Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.
Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.
