Zettel Quotes

“The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel

“Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel

“If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel

“11. I am inclined to say: I 'point' in different senses to this body, to its shape, to its colour, etc.--What does that mean?
What does it mean to say I 'hear' in a different sense the piano, its sound, the piece, the player, his fluency? I 'marry', in one sense a woman, in another her money.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel

“What I called jottings would not be a rendering of the text, not so to speak a translation with another symbolism. The text would not be stored up in the jottings. And why should it be stored up in our nervous system?”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel

“Our motto might be: "Let us not be bewitched".”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel

“»Gott kannst du nicht mit einem Andern reden hören, sondern nur, wenn du der Angeredete bist.« – Das ist eine grammatische Bemerkung.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel