Work on philosophy – like work in Architecture
in many respects – is really more a work on oneself.
On one’s own conception. On how one sees things.
(And what one expects of them.) WA 4, 124, 10 | There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy
is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a
beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In
philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say
‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country
except by knowing the connections between the roads.
L. Wittgenstein, Lecture, 1933 |