The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.
What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Only describe, don't explain. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Only describe, don't explain.
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
How small a thought it takes to fill a life. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly . - Ludwig Wittgenstein
When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
We learn by rearranging what we know. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
We learn by rearranging what we know.
All I know is what I have words for. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
All I know is what I have words for.
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
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.
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