Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
Quotes to Explore
-
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
-
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
-
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
-
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
-
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
-
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
-
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
-
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
-
I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
-
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
-
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
-
I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
-
The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
-
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
-
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
-
My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
-
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
-
People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
-
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
-
Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?
-
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
-
On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
-
Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
-
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
