Author: Wittgenstein

Cited by

• David Markson (1)
  • IN: Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I can well understand why children love sand.
    FROM: NULL, (1935), NULL, Austria
• Kit Fan (1)
  • IN: Paper, Scissors, Stone (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A is building with building-stones: there are blocks, pillars, slabs and beams. It has to pass the stones, and that in the order in which A needs them. For this purpose they use a language consisting of the words "block", "pillar", "slab", "beam". A calls them out ; - B brings the stone which he has learnt to bring at such-and-such a call. - Conceive this as a primitive language.
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria/England
• Reed Coleman (1)
  • IN: Hurt Machine (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
    FROM: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, (1921), Book, Austria/England
• Eric Lundgren (1)
  • IN: The Facades (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We believe, so to speak, that this great building exists, and then we see, now here, now there, one or another small corner of it.
    FROM: On Certainty, (1969), Book, Austria
• William Vollmann (1)
  • IN: An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World (1992) Autobiography, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I have admitted that the foreigner will probably pronounce a sentence differently if he conceives it differently; but what we call his wrong conception need not lie in anything that accompanies the utterance…
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, I.20, (1953), Book, Austria
• Fran Ross (1)
  • IN: Oreo (1974) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Burp!*
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Austria
• Iyer Lars (1)
  • IN: Wittgenstein Jr (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When you are philosophising you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
    FROM: Culture and Value, (1977), Book, Austria/England