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
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

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

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Never

• 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
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• 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
  • Giving
  • Environment
  • Step

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

  

  Vanity
  • God
  • Church
  • Word

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

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • 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
  • Boy
  • 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
  • Music
  • 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
  • Me
  • Movies

• 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
  • Long
  • Best

• 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
  • Music
  • 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
  • May
  • Attention
  • Feelings

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

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Face
  • Deal
  • Many

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

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Grief
  • Judging

• 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
  • War

• 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
  • Career
  • Practice

• A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Trying

• To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Power
  • Enough
  • Middle

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

  

  Diora Baird
  • People
  • Sex

• With Viagra you've got an onset of action of an hour and it lasts for four hours, and here's a new drug that has an onset of 16 minutes and lasts all day, ... Which might appeal for someone who wants to have more flexibility with their sexual experience.

  

  Tony Butler Big Country
  • Action
  • Might
  • Lasts

• Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.

  

  Stephen Lang
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Responsibility

• 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