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
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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.

  

  Larry Wall
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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
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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
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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
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  • Same

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

  

  Larry Niven
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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.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Work
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  • 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
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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
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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.

  

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

  

  Warren Farrell
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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.

  

  Jimmy Carter
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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
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  • 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

• Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Life
  • Trying

• We need to work together as social partners to focus on our economy by removing all the obstacles to investment and move South Africa to a higher level of growth.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Work
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• I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Live

• Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
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  • Friend

• In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Books
  • Response
  • Spirit Of Man

• I want to have bosses around me, 'cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep 'em, you know what I'm saying. So I make my relationships to keep 'em - all my relationships - not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.

  

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

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein