Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Giving Up

Quotes about: Giving Up

• Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Giving Up, Writing, Science

• I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Climbing

• You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Giving Up, Lying, Telling The Truth

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 44e), 1980.

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