Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Character
  • Movies
  • Young

• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Progress
  • Forward

• I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Any

• I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Money

• My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Mom
  • Passionate
  • Taught

• My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • God
  • Believe
  • Family

• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • You
  • Treat

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

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Values
  • Employees
  • Cynical

• When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Up
  • Black
  • Hands

• I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Country
  • May

• 'Democracy'

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Democracy

• The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Wall

• I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.

  

  Clive Barker
  • House
  • Imagination
  • Weird

• 'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.

  

  Lucy Dacus

• My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

  

  Phil LaMarr
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Up
  • Team
  • Trust

• I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Up
  • Success

• I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Work
  • Remember
  • America

• Evolution may not “drive” toward humanoid qualities at all, even if it uses them under rather special circumstances. What evolution may be up to could be merely the continuing structuration of the biosphere through increased levels of communication between systems of one level, resulting in more integrated supersystems on the next.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Circumstances
  • Evolution
  • Qualities

• She loved to return to the world of the book, a world in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions.

  

  Brian Morton
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Physician

• The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Business
  • Leave
  • Unfinished

• Let the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Earth
  • Promise

• 225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein