Thread for mundane ironists

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

In other words, alas, others, in the end, have to agree with you.

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

Next up: the lion whisperer.

The face is the soul of the body.

In other words, whatever that means.

The world is everything that is the case.

Just in case you thought it was only what uou believed it was.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all.

Start here: a man amidst mankind: back again to dasein

If there were a verb meaning “to believe falsely,” it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Right, like that will stop them from posting here…