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
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• 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
  • For Him
  • Kill

• I hate celebrities.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Celebrities

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

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Football

• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Team
  • Attention

• 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
  • Important

• 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
  • Philosophy
  • Tragedy

• Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people.

  

  Nash Grier
  • People
  • Gay
  • Early

• 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
  • Abuse

• 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
  • Desire

• One area where the state can be more effective in addressing the doctor shortage is to focus on making sure that Arizona is a friendly environment for doctors and those wishing to practice medicine.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Focus
  • Environment
  • Practice

• Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana

  

  Khaled Hosseini

• Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Reading
  • Author
  • Chicago

• I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Brave
  • Spread
  • Bravery

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

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein