Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Heart
  • Grass

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Great
  • Athlete
  • Champion

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Car

• In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • American
  • Talking
  • China

• Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Values
  • Employees
  • Cynical

• I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Funny
  • Credit
  • Tongue

• You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Beginning

• The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Being

• I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • God
  • Winning
  • Thought

• I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Think
  • You
  • Acting

• The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done

• Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Free

• do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Rest

• ‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Senior

• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  

  Annie Dillard

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.

  

  Alex Sharp
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Science

• America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Trying
  • America

• By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Society
  • Poetry

• Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Profound