I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again "I know that that's a tree", pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: "This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy."


On Certainty (1969)

Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again I know that that's a tree, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else...

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again I know that that's a tree, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else...

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again I know that that's a tree, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else...

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again I know that that's a tree, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else...