Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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I hate celebrities.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.
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Nicht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden - daß ist der große Fehler von 1848 und 1849 gewesen - sondern durch Eisen und Blut.
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When a government subsidy deprives the child of its dad the government is really subsidizing child abuse.
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If you bargain when they squeeze your balls, they will only squeeze again.
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The destruction was mutual. We went to Vietnam without any desire to capture territory or impose American will on other people. I don't feel that we ought to apologize or castigate ourselves or to assume the status of culpability.
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Our task then is always to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed meaning and values of the few-and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false faces, and on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.
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I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
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Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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Red hair stigmatizes you.
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I felt that some horrible scene or object lurked beyond the silk-hung walls, and shrank from glancing through the arched, latticed windows that opened so bewilderingly on every hand.
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Shiny new real estate may dress up a declining city, but it doesn’t solve its underlying problems. The hallmark of declining cities is that they have too much housing and infrastructure relative to the strength of their economies. With all that supply of structure and so little demand, it makes no sense to use public money to build more supply. The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren’t structures; cities are people.
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
