Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Food
  • Singing
  • Spiritual

• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Same

• Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Fear

• All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Speak

• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Fight

• The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • News
  • Hear
  • Late

• To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Night

• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Different
  • Lost

• Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Truth
  • Language
  • Everyone

• I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Country
  • Think

• Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Kind
  • Road
  • Yellow

• If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • War
  • Place
  • Give

• Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Wise

• A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Man
  • Question

• I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

  

  Harlan Ellison

• Today a new generation has taken charge of Labour. A new generation that understands the core of change

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Today
  • Taken

• Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Free
  • Small

• As Christian feel the changing winds of political climate, the blasts against their values in the media, the exclusion of the Christian faith from educational institutions, they begin to sense the dangers of complacency and of pietistical world flight.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • Political
  • Faith
  • Christian

• I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • Funny
  • Religious
  • Dirty

• We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Power
  • Magic
  • Lead

• The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein