Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Politics
  • Agreement
  • Pulpit

• 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

• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • You
  • Like
  • Patience

• 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

• Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Courage

• 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

• It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Why
  • Me
  • Single

• 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

• Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Turn

• 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

• The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering, and analyzing images are as essential to the digital artist as brushes and pigments to a painter.

  

  William J. Mitchell
  • Information
  • Computer
  • Painter

• To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

  

  Katherine Mansfield
  • Work

• Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.

  

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
  • Party

• The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Age
  • Freedom

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

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein