Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
More Quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein:
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Imagination & Visualization QuotesBased on Keywords: uttering
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
Franklin P. Jones
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.
Seymour Hersh