A Somewhere Weekly Quote

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 it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein              Culture and Value

The need for levity

Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up “What’s that?” – It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said: this is a man”, “this is a house”, etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what’s this then?Ludwig Wittgenstein

Weekly Quote

…a things significance (importance) lies in its being something everyone can understand. – That is both true and false. What makes a subject hard to understand – if it’s something significant and important – is not that before you can understand it you need to be specially trained in abstruse matters, but the contrast between understanding the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things which are most obvious may become the hardest of all to understand. What has to be overcome is a difficulty having to do with the will, rather than with the intellect.

Ludwig Wittgentstein