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"Jag kunde inte låta bli att tänka att det här var samma sak ännu en gång: allt detta virvlande kring idéer och projekt, som om det hela var nytt, som om ingen tidigare hade fått idéer eller hade försökt tänka eller velat utforska det ena eller det andra, det upprepade antagandet att det man nu höll på med var annorlunda."

"(..)the situation is that meaningful metaphysical statements are impossible. This follows from the task which metaphysics sets itself: to
discover and formulate a kind of knowledge which is not accessible
to empirical science."

"(..) our knowledge can only be quantitatively enlarged by
other beings (..) but no knowledge of an essentially different kind can be
added. What we do not know for certain, we may come to know with
greater certainty through the assistance of other beings; but what
is unintelligible, meaningless for us, cannot become meaningful
through someone else's assistance (..)"

Jag är inte en religiös person men jag kan inte hjälpa, att jag ser allt från ett religiöst perspektiv.

"Hela uppfattningen om att moral skulle kunna baseras på fakta, för att inte tala om teorier i idéhistorien om olika slags naturrätt, bygger på föreställningen att moralen inte vore hållbar, om den inte hade någon form av objektiv grund. Wittgenstein insåg, att det till slut aldrig handlar om någon sådan illusion utan om varje människas eget ansvar för sitt liv."

"Arbete med filosofi liksom ofta arbete med arkitektur är egentligen mer arbete med en själv. Men den egna uppfattningen. Men hur man ser tingen."

"Du påminner mig om någon som tittar ut genom ett fönster och som inte kan se någon mening i en förbipasserandes egendomliga rörelser. Hon känner inte till den våldsamma storm som blåser utanför och vet inte hur svårt det är för den andra att helt enkelt stå på benen."

"Drivkraften i mystiken kommer sig av att naturvetenskapen inte kan tillfredsställa våra önskningar. Vi känner, att även när alla möjliga naturvetenskapliga frågor har besvarats, har vårt problem inte alls berörts. Visserligen återstår och inte längre några frågor; och just detta är svaret."

'Time has passed over me,' she thought, trying to collect herself; 'this is the oncome of middle age. (..) Nothing is longer any one thing. I take up a handbag and I think of an old bumboat woman frozen in ice. Someone lights a link candle and I see a girl in Russian trousers.'

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than keeping us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

Rather than affirming the interdependence of various histories on one another, and the necessary interaction of contemporary societies with one another, the rhetorical separation of cultures assured a murderous imperial contest between them.

Nature and letters seemed to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

We must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact ... civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place ... at the end all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds to savagery."

"If one allows that it is impossible to define God in intelligible terms, then one is allowing that it is impossible for a sentence both to be significant and to be about God. If a mystic admits that the object of his vision is something which cannot be described, then he must also admit that he is bound to talk nonsense when he describes it."

"For we are often told that the nature of God is a mystery which transcends the human understanding. But to say that something transcends human understanding is to say that it is unintelligible. But if one allows that it is impossible for to define God in intelligible terms, then one is allowing that it is impossible for a sentence both to be significant and to be about God."

"The fact that it has recently become fashionable for physicists themselves to be sympathetic towards religion is a point in favour of this hypothesis. For this sympathy towards religion marks the physicists' own lack of confidence in the validity of their hyptheses, which is a reaction on their part from the anti-religious dogmatism of 19th century scientists (..)"

"(..)we cannot refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it.(..)But fromthe fact that we happen to employ a single word to refer to a thing,(..)it does not by any means follow that that the thing itself is a 'simple entity', or that it cannot be defined by the totality of its appearances."

kataleptiskt intryck - sådana som är tydliga och exakta

"Den fenomenologiska känslan av en föreställning under en dröm är densamma som av en föreställning under vaket tillstånd. Om det är sant kan vi inte särskilja dem bara genom att 'se' på dem."

"Another rec:urring aspect of the paranoid style is the speciaI
significance that attaches to the figure of the renegade from
the enemy cause. (...) in the spirital wrestling match
between good and evil which is the paranoid's archetypal
model of the world struggle, the renegade is living proof that
all the conversions are not made by the wrong side. He brings
with him the proof of redemption and victory."

"Yet in his very zeal for freedom he couriousIy assumed many of the charecteristics of the imagined enemy. (...) by censuring the subversive for alleged licentiousness, he engages in sensual fantasies (...)"

"This enemy seems to be on many counts a projection of the self: both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him. A fundamental paradox of the paranoid style is the imitation of the enemy. The enemy, for example, may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the paranoid will outdo him in the apparatus of scholarship, even of pedantry."