Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

Those old enough to write their memoirs should not comment on contemporary issues.

Modern history is like a deaf person who is in the habit of answering questions that no one has put to them.

I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a nasty word.

I was born 20 years after World War II had ended, and people of my generation mostly thought of it as a terrible period portrayed in documentaries you'd seen, flickering, in black and white.

I feel like people believe I'm thinking a different thing than I am because I have this look about me.

The Doctor says, "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

Parents just don't understand.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

"I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to tell him: "That was a joke!" But he just didn't get it. Mick Jagger said, "F- 'em if they don't get the joke." And I love him. That comes with age: Knowing it's their problem, not mine."

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way 'round

I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.