“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”
― Philosophical Investigations
― Philosophical Investigations
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Faust, First Part
― Faust, First Part
“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
“Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
For it cannot give any foundation either.
It leaves everything as it is.”
― Philosophical Investigations
For it cannot give any foundation either.
It leaves everything as it is.”
― Philosophical Investigations
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