W Quotes
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“Witness the government's inability to control the banking system or the continuing spree of vast bonus payments with little justification or scrutiny.”
“Witness the witness itself - and... the ultimate ecstasy is created. Start watching your thoughts but don't stop there... One more thing has to be done, one more step: now watch the watcher... Nothing else is left, only you are. By watching the mind, the mind disappears. By watching the witness, the witness expands and becomes universal.”
“Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n
From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view
On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea;
Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's
Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world
Of destined habitation.”
“Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.”
“Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.”
“Witnessed police officer misconduct? Expect to get the blue brotherhood runaround.”
“Witnesses.
Help us see how others see.
Help us see ourselves from another
vantage point,
a larger landscape,
a different view.
Witnesses.
Reality checks.
Mirrors.
Cameras.
Other lenses.
Different views.
They can save us from our worst possible choices
or from participating in someone else's.”
“Witnesses parade in, there is the travesty of a trial, and Ercole meets his end in a refreshingly simple mass stabbing.”
Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear persist. And persist. And persist. She may alternate between wanting to protect her mother and resenting her, an advance-and-retreat dance of identification and rejection than can span years.”
“Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Witnessing all of those hardworking female street vendors in Vietnam also made me understand why my mom felt so passionate about me and my sisters working. While we were in Vietnam together, she explained that the country had a history of always being in wartime, so women were expected to rise to the occasion of making money for the family. Vietnamese women were always ready to take over roles traditionally filled by men, Like A League of Their Own (but where everyone is Marla Hooch). I also understood why my mom wasn't into processing her feelings, and how she was taught to just get over tragedy. To survive, she had to believe things like depression and allergies were a choice. In a culture entrenched in wartime, those who chose to be unhappy or to refuse gluten didn't last long.”
Source: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
“Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague’s words: “The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.”
Source: Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet
“Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing. Go on nourishing it, go on caring for it, go on watering it, strengthen it in every possible way - and one day it is going to blossom. That day will be the greatest day of your life.”
“Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.”
“Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.”
“Witnessing people's grief or the state against them moves me deeply and inspires me to write my thoughts and feelings.”
“Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.”
“Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.”
“Witnessing the incompetence of the police has made me scared to call them!”
“Witnessing the incompetence that was in the utility solar industry and is still present within the industry led me to the belief that the astronomy community must turn its views toward the environment that we are living in.”
“Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. Its how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.”
“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that we are merely bit players in the game of life. Witnessing the majesty of beauty confirms that the real show lies outside us to observe and appreciate and not inside us to transfix us. True beauty charms us into seeing the grandeur of goodness that surrounds us and by doing so, the pristine splendor of nature releases us from wallowing in the poverty of our self-idealization. The bewitching spell cast by the exquisiteness of nature levitates our souls and transforms our psyche. When we see, hear, taste, smell, or touch what is beautiful, we cannot suppress the urge to replicate its baffling texture by singing, dancing, painting, or writing. Opening our eye to the loveliness of a single flower is how we stay in touch with the glorious pageantry of living.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Witnessing those who once rebelled against the state and their fathers by fleeing to the mountains, only to become worse than their fathers when they returned home after prison, has deeply shattered me. The fall of those who set high standards is always painful.”
Source: Yoldaşını Öldürmek
“WITNESSING: God loves it; Satan hates it. So do you think you should be doing it?”
“Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.”
Source: Fantastical Tales - The Ultimate Collection of Sword & Sorcery Action-Adventures, Time Travel & Mythical Worlds: Conan the Barbarian Series, The ‘Kull the Conqueror
“Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.”
Source: Puck of Pook's Hill
“Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide.”
Source: Essays in Quasi-Realism
“Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can be plausible options to make ourselves understood. So, if we can’t say it, we can show and depict it. Whereof we cannot speak we can paint! ("Happy days are back again")”
“Wittgenstein once said:
the mystery is, why does the universe exist at all?”
Source: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
“Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“Wittgenstein was brilliant enough to see that math is, and must be, pure tautology, but not brilliant enough to see that mathematical tautology is descriptive and
real, not empty and abstract.”
Source: Gödel Versus Wittgenstein
“Wittgenstein wrote a comprehensive critique of the Scottish anthropologist J. G. Frazer's masterpiece "The Golden Bough" (1890), a comparative study of religion and mythology. One of Wittgenstein's main objections was that Frazer ascribes the natives he discusses with irrational beliefs for which there is no evidence: for example, that a certain ritual will make it rain. The problem is that Frazer is unable to see what the natives are actually doing. Wittgenstein states: "Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages... His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves." While Frazer believes that the natives' actions are based on mistaken beliefs about causal relationships, Wittgenstein suggests that they are not based on such beliefs at all.
Once, after a very bad game, I smashed my tennis racket. Had my opponent thought like Frazer, he would have believed that my action was a ritual sacrifice aimed at changing the outcome of the tournament for me. But my action was not based on any such expectation. It was simply an immature expression of anger and disappointment. The most reasonable understanding of the natives' ritual practices involves considering them as expressions of hope, among other things, not as irrational notions of causal relationships. Our idea of causation stems from us observing regularities. We will have repeatedly seen that A is followed by B. What regularities would have led the natives to see a causal relationship between a specific ritual and a specific natural phenomenon such as rain? Is is unlikely that rain was usually brought about by a specific dance, and the natives must have seen that it sometimes rains despite no ritual being performed. Not least, the natives should have danced a lot during the driest parts of the year, but they didn't. So it's far more plausible to consider this dance an expression of hoping for rain. From that perspective there is nothing irrational about the natives' actions. The dancing is a shared expression of their understanding that the desired rain might come.”
Source: A Philosophy of Hope
“Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.”
Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
“Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.”
Source: Letters
“Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.”
“Wittkower's response - which resonated for decades - to the manifest lack of robustness of modern civilization was to reassert the absolute difference between the past and the present: premodern societies were oriented, and they knew hierarchy. Wittkower argued, on the basis of the texts by Alberti and Palladio, that the architecture of the Italian Renaissance materialized a mathematical program: a system of ratios that pictured the invisible structure of the cosmos. Architecture placed the human body within this system. It is hard to see the difference between this and Sedlmayr's view except that the one believes that man's image was best framed by forms based on the divinely measured proportions of the human body, and the other believes that man's image was best framed by an image of divinity itself. Wittkower recovers a religious conception of architecture but detached from Christianity: the Renaissance church as a Hindu temple, as it were.”
Source: A History of Art History
“Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.”
“Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.”
“Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.”
“Witty people came out in autumn; beauties in July.”
Source: Dancer from the Dance
“Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.”
“Wiv difficulty 'an injinuity. Jest bein' smart, like.”
Source: Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives
“Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.”
Source: Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
“Wives are good on paper, at least. until they turn into harpies with sharp claws and open check books. Then they're kind of frightening. And they put on all kinds of makeup and parade around the street with their shopping cart yelling "Sale on aisle seven!" at anyone who will listen. Their wooden clog sandals make a helluva racket on linoleum tile. Their plastic jewelry clatters like the bones of little children.”
“Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.”
“Wives are people who think it's against the law not to answer the phone when it rings.”
“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”