So we see how useful Wittgenstein is to the Labour Party. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-21] Reference
Wittgenstein is partly internal, and some (Soames) think that his time is past anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Richard Rorty] Reference
I dialed up everyone named Ripley in America and asked, "Does the name Wittgenstein mean anything to you?". From Wordnik.com. [A Family's Decrescendo] Reference
To paraphrase Wittgenstein, “carbuncle” is a funny word. From Wordnik.com. [What’s a carbuncle] Reference
Written in a style that simultaneously recalls Wittgenstein's. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
To paraphrase Wittgenstein: "If you can't say anything worth saying, then don't open your mouth.". From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy Blog] Reference
To paraphrase Wittgenstein: "If a dog could talk, we still wouldn't understand what he was saying.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Many luminaries have defined the word "game", from philosophers such as Wittgenstein to game designers such as Chris Crawford. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of "Game"] Reference
Technically this is called Wittgenstein’s ruler, by the way. From Wordnik.com. [Almost last thoughts on randomness] Reference
Wittgenstein was born right in the center of things. From Wordnik.com. [Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness] Reference
The Wittgenstein family was large and well connected. From Wordnik.com. ['The House of Wittgenstein'] Reference
But the interesting thing about Wittgenstein was this. From Wordnik.com. [Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness] Reference
By war's end, the Wittgenstein fortune had eddied away. From Wordnik.com. [A Viennese Blend: Riches and Rancor] Reference
Now I am no Wittgenstein but this really was a no brainer. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Cruddas's conference diary] Reference
Excerpted from "House of Wittgenstein" by Alexander Waugh. From Wordnik.com. ['The House of Wittgenstein'] Reference
So how did the biography turn into a Wittgenstein panorama?. From Wordnik.com. [A Family's Decrescendo] Reference
Truculence was apparently part of the Wittgenstein inheritance. From Wordnik.com. [A Viennese Blend: Riches and Rancor] Reference
Hint - rush into a room full of Wittgenstein fans and yell "Fire!". From Wordnik.com. [A. L. Kennedy: Publishing FAQs] Reference
"Wittgenstein had students come to his rooms at Cambridge," he declares. From Wordnik.com. [Too Soon Old, Too Late Wise] Reference
Petersburg hero Wittgenstein, this mood and the gossip of the staff reached their maximum. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Doubleday Published in the U.K. last fall, "House of Wittgenstein" portrays a troubled family. From Wordnik.com. [A Family's Decrescendo] Reference
So yes I got excited by Wittgenstein, learnt from him, still love him and find him exasperating!. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop answers stimulating questions at Westminster School] Reference
As Wittgenstein once noted, the fly in the bottle has difficulty observing the fly in the bottle. From Wordnik.com. [Great Transition~ Where Are We] Reference
Wittgenstein also fathered nine children -- four girls, one of whom died at birth, and five boys. From Wordnik.com. [A Viennese Blend: Riches and Rancor] Reference
I myself, the man you see before you, have felt the pulse of Prince Wittgenstein and of Zhukovsky!. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers and Sons] Reference
Suddenly the Prince of Wittgenstein, who was standing at my left hand, cried out under his breath. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference
Wittgenstein thought this paradox impressive philosophical insight: whenever one is wrong about the whether forecast. From Wordnik.com. [Five] Reference
And assembling the observations of other thinkers — Wittgenstein, Freud, Morgenbesser — is not writing a philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Funny in Theory, Not in Practice] Reference
In his spare time, Wittgenstein acquired a spectacular house in Vienna, grandly styled as the family's Palais Wittgenstein. From Wordnik.com. [A Viennese Blend: Riches and Rancor] Reference
Wittgenstein once argued that "what we cannot talkabout we must pass over in silence", but this is precisely what we cannever do. From Wordnik.com. [We can't escape from mystery] Reference
No one expects him to start reading Wittgenstein, but Rico's accomplishments raise new questions about the roots of human language. From Wordnik.com. [HE'S ONE SMART PUPPY] Reference
It has an outstanding pedigree: famous minds who pushed back the frontiers of knowledge there include Newton, Darwin and Wittgenstein. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge ousts Harvard as world's best university] Reference
It was snowing harder when Dale reached the small rise where Duane had buried his faithful collie, Wittgenstein, that same summer of 1960. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
I would quite like to have a few more but the ones that have really shaped me are I suppose Wittgenstein and Hegel - very, very different. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop answers stimulating questions at Westminster School] Reference
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