Ludwig Wittgenstein Famous Quotes
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotations
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
Srully D Blotnick
"What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here."
Alfred A Montapert
Within a stone's throw of it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
Marian Wright Edelman
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
George Smith Patton Jr
"After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations."
H L Mencken
"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D Rockefeller
"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night."
Jean Baudrillard