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Finding Wittgenstein’s outlook alien and incomprehensible, he could seek only to explain it, not to make sense of it. He was incapable. as it were, of getting inside it.
“Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.”
― Feel Free: Essays
― Feel Free: Essays
“It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master”
― Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
― Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.”
― Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
― Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
“I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.”
― Feel Free: Essays
― Feel Free: Essays
“Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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