Ludwig Wittgenstein on Time
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
This page displays 8 quotations attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein and filed under "time" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, entry #148169: "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, entry #64571: "What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use."
8 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein on Time
"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
"What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use."
"If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day."
"In Our Time : Wittgenstein Real audio stream of BBC Radio 4 programme"
"So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay."
"When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind."
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits."
"It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot get the upper hand against England. The English — the best race in the world — cannot lose! We, however, can lose and shall lose, if not this year then next year. The thought that our race is going to be beaten depresses me terribly, because I am completely German."