{"author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein","total_quotes":107,"quotes":[{"text":"It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["existence","mystical","the-world"],"id":2146,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["life","philosophy","science"],"id":9651,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots; and that involves our beginning to think about these things in a new way. The change is as decisive as, for example, that from the alchemical to the chemical way of thinking. The new way of thinking is what is so hard to establish. Once the new way of thinking has been established, the old problems vanish; indeed they become hard to recapture. For they go with our way of expressing ourselves and, if we clothe ourselves in a new form of expression, the old problems are discarded along with the old garment.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["change","cure","healing","inspirational","problems","self-improvement","transformation"],"id":10784,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["fools","heretics","ideas","negotiation"],"id":10946,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"Christianity is not a doctrine, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life. For 'consciousness of sin' is a real event an so are despair and salvation through faith. Those who speak of such things (Bunyan for instance) are simply describing what has happened to them, whatever gloss anyone may want to put on it.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["christianity","doctrine","dogma","faith","religion"],"id":14497,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: 'I wish you luck.' I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["conversation","luck","ludwig-wittgenstein","on-certainty"],"id":24182,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["people","know","just "],"id":24571,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["language","philosophy","structuralism","truth"],"id":25657,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["happiness"],"id":25965,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["today","eyes","fashion "],"id":33328,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":107,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}