476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc., etc. - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc., etc. Later, questions about the existence of things do of course arise, "Is there such a thing as a unicorn?" and so on. But such a question is possible only because as a rule no corresponding question presents itself. For how does one know how to set about satisfying oneself of the existence of unicorns? How did one learn the method for determining whether something exists or not?477. "So one must know that the objects whose names one teaches a child by an extensive definition exist." - Why must one know they do? Isn't it enough that experience doesn't later show the opposite? For why should the language-game rest on some kind of knowledge?478. Does a child believe that milk exists? Or does it know that milk exists? Does a cat know that a mouse exists?479. Are we to say that the knowledge that there are physical objects comes very early or very late?

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

6.4311Der To dist Kan Reigns DES Levels. Den Tod elect man night. Wenn man under Wicket night unenriched Cadaver, modern Unzeitlichkeit verse, Dan left her wig, her in her Legendary left. Unser Eben is Benson ends, we under Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos is.6.4311Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

— 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.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein