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"One age misunderstands another, and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way."
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"I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning."
"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."
"Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures."
"There are many problems which could only be solved by generations which are still to be born later. It's only one way of many how God gives answers to human problems and prayers."
"Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other's rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understand, that it will go beyond them (not so much over the head as between the legs); and with the feeling that they must arrive with something the other will like, something suitable."
"I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great."
"Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land."
"They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age."
"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."
"It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations."
Explore more quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized."
"The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are."
"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."
"If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'."
"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."
"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy."
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."
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