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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Marshall here is vaguely upset. He might talk sternly to you. I, on the other hand, am a very bad enemy to have, and a lovely friend.
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Rosemary was only a spinster in the strict sense of denotation. She was eminently, eminently nubile.
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I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.
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The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
