Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Party
  • Too Much

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Ambition

• What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Great
  • Live
  • Age

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Desire

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Marriage

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Kid
  • Little
  • Watched

• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Gentleman

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Bad
  • Independence

• John Barnes is incredibly variable. Pete's Rule (Never buy a Barnes with sodomy in it) is a good one but unfortunately the publisher does not put that kind of stuff on the cover.

  

  James Nicoll
  • Good

• Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Eyes
  • Shadow
  • Receding

• In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.

  

  Jerry Lawler
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Husband

• A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • May