Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

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• I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Baby
  • Born
  • Texas

• I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Like
  • Never
  • Feel

• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • True
  • Age

• The real war will never get in the books.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • War
  • Never

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Like

• Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
  • Evil
  • Justice

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Work
  • English
  • Learn

• The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Reality
  • Education
  • Focus

• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Man

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

  

  John Harvey Kellogg
  • Good
  • Church

• Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • America
  • Rock

• I met a lady in the meads,Full beautiful - a faery's child,Her hair was long, her foot was light,And her eyes were wild.

  

  John Keats
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Light
  • Evil

• There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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