Wittgenstein On Certainty Quotes

#1. A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world ...

Jonah Goldberg

#2. People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.

Tony Robbins

#3. You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.

Gabby Douglas

#4. God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.

Dwight L. Moody

#5. In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.
And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6. My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

Gregory Keyes

#7. If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#9. If there was a risk that the vendor wouldn't come through for you, then you should have had a contingency plan.

Andrew Hunt

#10. I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

Roald Dahl

#12. I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

Gretchen Rubin

#13. Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage.

Kevin Shields

#14. Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

William F. Schulz

#15. The body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.

Oliver Sacks