Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

  

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• How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

  

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• If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.

  

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• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

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• There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
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• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  

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• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  

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• I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

  

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• I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

  

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• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  

  H. R. Giger
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• I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

  

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• I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

  

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• I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

  

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• You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

  

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• Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.

  

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• She committed suicide...'Why?''She often told me, she was frightened of getting old.'

  

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• I get really mean or emotional if I don't have food in my system.

  

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• As all of our lives become digital, the logic of encryption is all of our lives will be covered by strong encryption, and therefore all of our lives - including the lives of criminals and terrorists and spies - will be in a place that is utterly unavailable to court-ordered process. And that, I think, to a democracy should be very, very concerning.

  

  James Comey
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• A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

  

  Tom Stoppard
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• I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
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• If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logic