Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

That is gold which is worth gold.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

Words that do not create images should be discarded.

Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded.

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

Platinum is a lot of things: it's hair, it's diamonds and platinum

Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

Water colours are wet colours in water.

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface.

Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.