"First We Take Manhattan"
I'm Your Man (1988)
“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.”
As quoted in Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information (2008) edited by Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, p. 140
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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951Related quotes
“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.”
The Rise of the Dutch Republic (1856; New York: Harper, 1861) vol. 3, part 6, ch. 7, p. 627.
Of William the Silent. In a footnote Motley cites the original of his last phrase in an official report made by the Greffier Corneille Aertsens: "dont par toute la ville l'on est en si grand duil tellement que les petits enfans en pleurent par les rues."
“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”
Preface to Dr. Brodie's Report [El informe de Brodie] (1970)
“He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 109).
Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”