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Them Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common…
- A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one…
- Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things…
- This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
- We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have…
- Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster