23-year-old University of Calgary student, studying English (Honours, Creative Writing Concentration), and Social and Cultural Anthropology (Honours). Occasional wastrel, reluctant idealist, bisexual. Likes books, art, magpies, freckles, leaving marks, smart people who give a fuck, picking fights with her cat, proofreading, and whiskey.
fuckyeahexistentialism:

Image of Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs, 1965 (on display in various versions around the world). The artwork consists of a chair, a photograph of the chair, and the dictionary definition of ‘chair’.

1931 notebook entry from Ludwig Wittgenstein (Culture and Value 10e):
The limits of language is shown by its being impossible to describe the fact which corresponds to (is the translation of) a sentence, without simply repeating the sentence. (This has to do with the Kantian solution of the problem of philosophy.)

fuckyeahexistentialism:

Image of Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs, 1965 (on display in various versions around the world). The artwork consists of a chair, a photograph of the chair, and the dictionary definition of ‘chair’.

1931 notebook entry from Ludwig Wittgenstein (Culture and Value 10e):

The limits of language is shown by its being impossible to describe the fact which corresponds to (is the translation of) a sentence, without simply repeating the sentence. (This has to do with the Kantian solution of the problem of philosophy.)

(Source: beetleinabox)