Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Larry Wall
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  • World
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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.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
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• I hate celebrities.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
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• There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Football

• 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.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • People
  • World
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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.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Same

• We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Mistakes
  • Looking
  • Ahead

• When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Work
  • Money
  • Ideas

• Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Good
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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.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die

• When a government subsidy deprives the child of its dad the government is really subsidizing child abuse.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Dad
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• If you bargain when they squeeze your balls, they will only squeeze again.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • American
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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.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Joe Eszterhas

• And then, one by one, they came onto the screen late in the day to pontificate about how we were going into a moral sewer. How this image of a breast at a family halftime show was not only disgusting, it was disturbing, it was shocking, it was indecent. I thought 'Uh, it's just a tit. And none of those adjectives really fucking apply.'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Family
  • Moral

• Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Live
  • Home
  • Trees

• I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'...

  

  Hal David
  • Stop
  • Rain
  • Complaining

• I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Moved

• What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein