Bending Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein Download Open image “You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bending Tragedy Tree Trees
If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating… — John Stott Copy Share Image
In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
