Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say 'yes' to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say 'I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

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• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
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• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

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• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

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• I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

  

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• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
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• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

  

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• I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

  

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• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

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• I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• There is no truly global justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
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• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
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• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.

  

  Neil Diamond
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• I've always been interested in the paranormal, but 'Gray Matter' is a more subtle, mature expression of that - looking at the powers of the brain and more delicate evidence of the extraordinary.

  

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• Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

  

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• Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well.

  

  Chris Young
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• There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially inadequate computer geek" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

  

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• 206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say 'yes' to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say 'I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same.'

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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