The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.


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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
LUDWIG BORNE
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at le...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Debate is the death of conversation.
EMIL LUDWIG
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
LUDWIG BORNE
If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the ...
LUDWIG ERHARD
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my though...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality,...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar o...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relati...
EMIL LUDWIG
Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making prog...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off an...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strang...
EMIL LUDWIG
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
LUDWIG BORNE
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dial...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any ph...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A confession has to be part of your new life.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
LUDWIG BEMELMANS
Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one ph...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional spa...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriage...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep ag...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
LUDWIG BORNE