Werner Heisenberg Quotes

What can be shown, cannot be said.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Truth implies meaning.

I have no message.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Being is the great explainer.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Well, what does "good" mean anyway? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation."

About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs , then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.