Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Cited by

• Jim Holt (1)
  • IN: Why Does the World Exist? (2012) Non-Fiction, Cosmology, American
    EPIGRAPH: The riddle does not exist.
    FROM: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, (1922), Book, Austria / UK
• Angela Carter (1)
  • IN: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: (Remember that we sometimes demand definitions for the sake not of the content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one: the definition is a kind of ornamental coping that supports nothing.)
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria
• Rebecca Goldstein (1)
  • IN: Properties of Light (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to it.
    FROM: Notes for Lectures on Private Experience from the Philosophical Review (1968), (1968), Book, Austria/England
• Joyce Oates (1)
  • IN: I’ll Take You There (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), NULL, Austria/England
• Meg Howrey (1)
  • IN: The Wanderers (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there are then no questions left, and this itself is the answer.
    FROM: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, (1921), Book, Austria/England
• Colin Dexter (1)
  • IN: The Way Through the Woods (1992) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria
• John Twelve Hawks (2)
  • IN: Spark (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
    FROM: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, (1921), Book, Austria
  • IN: Sparks (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
    FROM: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, (1921), Book, Austria
• Casey Walker (1)
  • IN: Last Days in Shanghai (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We tend to take the speech of a Chinese for inarticulate gurling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in what he hears. Similarly I often cannot discern the humanity in a man.
    FROM: Culture and Value, (1977), NULL, Austria
• Jon Grimwood (1)
  • IN: Felaheen (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If a lion could speak, we could not understand him . . .
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria
• Jill Essbaum (1)
  • IN: Hausfrau (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar f the language.
    FROM: Philosophical Investigation, (1953), Article, UK
• Andrew Lane (1)
  • IN: Netherspace (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), NULL, NULL
• Andrew Drennan (1)
  • IN: The Limits of the World (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: 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.
    FROM: Culture and Value, (1977), Book, Austria/England
• Jill Alexander Essbaum (1)
  • IN: Haus Frau (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria
• Bruce Duffy (1)
  • IN: The World As I Found It (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I once said, perhaps rightly: The earlier culture will become a heap of rubble and finally a heap of ashes, but spirit will hover over the ashes.
    FROM: Culture and Value, (1977), Book, Austria
• Ciaran Carson (1)
  • IN: Shamrock Tea (2001) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The world is everything that is the case.
    FROM: Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, (1921), Book, Austria
• Philip Kerr (1)
  • IN: A Philosophical Investigation (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The best that I could write would never be more than philosophical remarks; my thoughts were soon crippled if i tried to force them on in any single direction against their natural inclination. - And this was, of course, connected with the very nature of the investigation. For this compels us to travel over a wide field of thought criss-cross in every direction.
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations (translated by G. E. M. Anscombe), (1958), Book, Austria
• John Keene (1)
  • IN: The Lions (2015) Short Story, American
    EPIGRAPH: If a lion could talk, we would not understand him.
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria
• Joyce Carol Oates (1)
  • IN: I'll take you there (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria