“He who lives not in time, but in the present, is happy. —LUDWIG VON WITTGENSTEIN” — William Ury Copy Share Image
“Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part of the construction, and never find anything simple enough.” — Ray Monk Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“It is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities" --> Pretty Wittgenstein like.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.” — Ray Monk Copy Share Image
“Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.” — Ray Monk Copy Share Image
Well, what does "good" mean anyway? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present." L. Wittgenstein,… — Chris M. Carmichael Copy Share Image
“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him,' the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said. 'It's clear that Wittgenstein hadn't spent… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and--in the unlikely event that he doesn't fall into it--he will become either… — Christos H. Papadimitriou Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
“The meaning of the world, said Wittgenstein, is outside the world. Events and values are distinguishable only in relation to others. A… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“when Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point,… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Ludwig Wittgenstein” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Cézanne, too, had had enough of psychology. He attended, instead, to color. "If I paint all the little blues and all the… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“As the blood poured from his tattered heart into the open air and his brain suffocated, all those incomplete thoughts of Wittgenstein… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions… — Moritz Schlick Copy Share Image
“ He was of the opinion... that his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his… — Georg Henrik von Wright Copy Share Image
“Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I had been reading Wittgenstein. There are no philosophical problems, only linguistic misunderstandings. Was this so? If so, why write at such… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“ But are there philosophical problems? The present position of English philosophy - my point of departure - originates, I believe, in… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as:… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Like the positivists, Wittgenstein was hostile to metaphysics. But he attacked metaphysics not with a blunt instrument like the verification principle, but… — Anthony Kenny Copy Share Image
“Earlier fundamental work of Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Whorf, etc., as well as my own attempt to use this earlier thinking as… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“An even more important philosophical contact was with the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who began as my pupil and ended as my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When I met Wittgenstein, I saw that Schlick's warnings were fully justified. But his behavior was not caused by any arrogance. In… — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to deviate from an old line of thought 'just a little'. The radical departure is easier than the subtle… — Paul Byall Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'.… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
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