Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Remove all the junk from one's house. Then one doesn't have to deal with the temptation. If you get hungry enough, you will eat that apple.

Genius is knowing where to stop.

It's not easy not to play.

The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.

Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.