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 like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Planning

• 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

• I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Words
  • Lost
  • Poetry

• 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

• When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • President
  • Abortion
  • Errors

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Wisdom
  • Present

• I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Health
  • Exercise
  • Walking

• Our image, if we have one, has been shaped only by me, Tom and Richard and the songs we write.

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Image

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

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein