Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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  • Change

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
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• I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
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• God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

  

  Vanity
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• 'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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  • Power
  • Sometimes

• By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Time
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  • Everyone

• For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
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  • Night

• I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
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• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
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• I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Better

• I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

  

  Sade Adu
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  • Training
  • Uneducated

• But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

  

  Frances Wright
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• Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • World
  • America
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• Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
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• When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Time
  • Humble

• People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

  

  Jane Austen
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• Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Parents
  • Fall

• Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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  • Sports
  • New

• If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.'

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein