Dandelion

“But how did you become devoted to the King who had done all this?’ Sudarshana asks. When did this change of feeling take place? ‘I couldn’t tell you’, comes the reply: I don’t know myself. A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw … I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued.”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

“Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

“A man's real nature is never altered by education.”
― Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

“Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.”
― Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles