Wittgensteins Language Quotes & Sayings

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life. — Harriet Martineau

One thing I have discovered is that people don't want to be followers, they want to be friends. — E'yen A. Gardner

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty. — Robert Genn

Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level. — John Stahl-Wert

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs. — Junot Diaz

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences — Nikola Tesla

The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of the New York Times, the more I want my own .45 holstered within easy reach of this typewriter. — Patrick Bedard

There is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend ... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!' — Nathaniel Branden

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. — William Hazlitt

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. — Ted Dekker

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can. — Kathryn Bigelow

ISABEL: Sorry I missed my session Monday.
DR. RUSH: Would you like to tell me why?
ISABEL: I was depressed.
DR. RUSH: That's a good reason to come to therapy. — Lisa Lutz

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me. — Lincoln Steffens

We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they're from, and they also represent the women of the nation or the state or sometimes as Maloney has done, of the world. — Eleanor Smeal

The planet is spinning on time: not a small event. All the galaxies are managing fine; the whole cosmos is doing great. But you have one nasty little thought crawling through your head, and it is a bad day! The problem is you are living in a psychological space that bears no connection with reality. And you are insecure, because it can collapse at any moment. — Sadhguru