Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Powerful, Catholic, Church

• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, Sex, Attitude

  "Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism". Book by Richard Thomas Eldridge. Chapter: "Conversations with Wittgenstein", p. 130, 1997.

• I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Thinking, Church

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin