I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am n...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was sta...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep a...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactl...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physic...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinka...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages ar...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now thi...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over th...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since lo...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not c...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one t...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my though...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar o...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making prog...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off an...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dial...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any ph...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A confession has to be part of your new life.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional spa...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriage...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep ag...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propo...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, p...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be de...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be a...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view ove...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Philosophy is not a theory but an activity
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it w...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN What can be shown, cannot be said.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree'...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I am my world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye t...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the f...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horribl...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and fami...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The limits of my language mean the limits of my world
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what probl...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your no...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats,...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the found...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and fami...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN At the end of reasons comes persuasion
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. - The one th...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A picture is a model of reality.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, p...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN (on Sartre) Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can b...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The limits of language are the limits of one's world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannotbe expressed. The riddle does not exi...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man decla...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a ki...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pl...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN When philosophers use a word—'knowledge,' 'being,' 'object,' 'I,' 'proposition,' 'name,' and try t...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and famil...
PROF. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, ...
LUDWIG TIECK The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are
LUDWIG BORNE If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
LUDWIG BOLTZMANN I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particula...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
LUDWIG BORNE If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at le...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Debate is the death of conversation.
EMIL LUDWIG Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
LUDWIG BORNE A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the ...
LUDWIG ERHARD The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality,...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relati...
EMIL LUDWIG Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strang...
EMIL LUDWIG Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
LUDWIG BORNE Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
LUDWIG BEMELMANS Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one ph...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
LUDWIG BORNE A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest p...
LUDWIG ERHARD If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at l...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately,...
LUDWIG QUIDDE When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to...
LUDWIG QUIDDE Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
LUDWIG BORNE Man is what he eats.
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
LUDWIG BORNE Are we comfortable subjecting a child to a life-threatening, life-changing surgical intervention?
DAVID LUDWIG The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble com...
LUDWIG BEMELMANS The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is depende...
LUDWIG QUIDDE Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point...
LUDWIG QUIDDE Everyone in Hollywood wanted a role in this movie. Everyone wanted to have a part in it. I feel so l...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver whe...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarm...
LUDWIG QUIDDE The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an ...
LUDWIG QUIDDE Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG I pulled the gun when I stood up, took two steps down the hallway and fired. His back was towards me...
DAVID LUDWIG Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.
LUDWIG ERHARD A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest p...
LUDWIG ERHARD We've leaned heavily on Quinton throughout the season. Now he's got a great opportunity to play in f...
ANDY LUDWIG It's a major issue as you can well imagine.
ANDY LUDWIG They want some clarity. We just don't have answers for them.
TED LUDWIG The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at...
LUDWIG QUIDDE I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it wi...
LUDWIG QUIDDE [T]he object to which a subject essentially, necessarily relates, is nothing else than this subject'...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH In the object which he contemplates … man becomes acquainted with himself.
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time consciou...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Each planet has its own sun. … [I]t really is another sun on Uranus … The relation of the Sun to...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers ple...
LUDWIG QUIDDE From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromis...
LUDWIG ERHARD You do what you've done through the course of the season to get you there. There's just extra wrinkl...
ANDY LUDWIG The average teen-ager is getting 15 to 20 teaspoons a day of added sugar from soft drinks alone. Con...
DAVID LUDWIG I am delighted that we were able to finalize a long-term contract with Linus. Last season he proved ...
OLAF LUDWIG I am delighted that we were able to finalise a long-term contract with Linus. Last season he proved ...
OLAF LUDWIG Only the suppressed word is dangerous
LUDWIG BORNE The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to real...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme ...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Man is what he eats
LUDWIG FEUERBACH drew the pistol and shot her dad in the back as he was going down the hallway to the front door.
DAVID LUDWIG The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
LUDWIG BORNE If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
LUDWIG BORNE Let us have no care, but be glad of the approaching springtime of the peoples. Let us have no fear o...
LUDWIG BORNE Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death
LUDWIG BORNE Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, ...
LUDWIG QUIDDE If you are switching a career, a full-time program would be the way to go because you have an opport...
BOB LUDWIG It's nice to be recognized like this. This year we have a few more than usual.
BOB LUDWIG Fiber may act by slowing down the rates of digestion and lowering concentrations of the hormone insu...
DAVID LUDWIG Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nat...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and di...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Conditions in Tuscany are perfect.
OLAF LUDWIG Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions
EMIL LUDWIG To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must...
LUDWIG BEMELMANS Death is the surest calculation that can be made
LUDWIG BüCHNER When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eter...
EMIL LUDWIG