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Things Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the…
- We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
- The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system…
- The world is the totality of facts, not of things
- There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
- The world is made up of facts, not things.
- If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
- 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…
- Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing…
- I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a…
- The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because…
- The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity
- If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle