#si

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#cleverness #come #down #green #heights

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#astride #bad #good #good nature #horse

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#clear #even #flight #free #get

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#know #means #rise #sun #tomorrow

Love is faith in action." ~R. Alan Woods [2006] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#faith #love #mercy #r-alan-woods #faith

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#fresh #ground #like #new #new word

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#nothing #propositions #say #show #they say

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#curse #i #just #sit #typewriter

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#enriches #everybody #literature #lives #music

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

#divide #folly #holding #into #just