Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

Power is nothing if you can't connect.

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

That power is in vain which is never in use.

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger the swing, the deeper your experience will be.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

I'm being probably naïve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with it, and you see some relevance in it to your own life, then it's a little bit harder, maybe, to look at the people that produced it as being just exotic others that don't have any connection to you or relevance to you.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

I think I'm realizing I've always been able to move people, just getting people to talk.

What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"