“What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.”
Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Work
Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
This book compiles a series of philosophical writings that span four decades, offering insights into the author's intellectual development and engagement with various philosophical topics during that period. more
Author
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, renowned for his profound contributions to language, logic, and philosophical methods. His ideas have had a significant impact on the development of analytic philosophy and philosophy of language. more
You May Also Like
“Man is the microcosm: I am my world.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“The form is the possibility of the structure.”
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
“Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916