Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
-
I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
-
If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
-
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
-
Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
-
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
-
I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
-
Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
-
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
-
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
-
I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
-
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
-
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
-
Young Indians are energetic and ambitious, have lots of ideas. They work around the difficult situation they face here. But the big challenge is to market products and services to the West, because costs there aren't coming down.
-
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
-
I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
-
The only art I have is a Polaroid from Peter Beard from his book. I shot with him four years ago, and he did a special Polaroid for me, so I consider it a piece of art.
-
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
-
'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques Mr. Mann brought to bear on 'Heat,' right down to using a similar cold-blooded electronic score.
-
Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?
-
Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
-
Anytime you adapt work of somebody who you respect, as much as I respect him, it's an enormous responsibility. In honoring that responsibility, what we try to do is to continually use his work, and the writing that he did about his life and his work, as our guide. That starts with his intent for what he was trying to express when he wrote it, and it extends to his intent overall.
-
So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
