some Wittgenstein quotes: The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word I. Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didnt find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us (he means ALL AROUND you) today, if only we had eyes to see them. Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. 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. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of discussion. Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:37:33 +0000
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