"The world is independent of my will."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Will, World

36

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Will quotes

"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Will, Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Will, World

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."

George W. Bush, American President

Will,

"Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year."

Paula Abdul, American Musician

Will,

"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Will, Evil, Fate, Justice

"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."

Umberto Guidoni, Italian Astronaut

Will,

"Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Will,

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Will, Wit

"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Will,

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Will,

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."

Knowledge

"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."

Imagination

"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."

Science

"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."

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'."

Parenting

"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."

Problems

"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."

Philosophy

"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."

Inquiry

"Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe."

Ideas

"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."

Man