ipd:
“Thus we see already that we can never arrive at the real nature of things from without. However much we investigate, we can never reach anything but images and names. We are like a man who goes round a castle seeking in vain for an entrance, and sometimes sketching the façades. And yet this is the method that has been followed by all philosophers before me.”
arthur schopenhauer, from the second book of ‘the world as will and representation.’ (via heksenhaus)
”..arrive at the real nature of things..investigate..[method]”
“We are tempted to think that the action of language consists of two parts: an inorganic part, the handling of signs, and an organic part, which we may call the understanding these signs, meaning them, interpreting them, thinking. These latter activities seem to take place in a queer kind of medium, the mind; and the mechanism of the mind, the nature of which, it seems, we don’t quite understand, can bring about effects which no material mechanism could.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein; The Blue Book (via dialoghost)
Matt Wisniewski
