Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

Thinking is harder work than hard work.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Remember, it's more mentally tiring to think about what has to be done, and all the things that might go wrong, than it is to physically do the job.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

To act is easy; to think is hard.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.

I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer