“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951Related quotes
“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
“'“Everything is true”, he said. “Everything anybody has ever thought.””
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 20 (p. 227)
“Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.”
Source: The House of Hades
“Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
Variant: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
From William Bruce Cameron's Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963), p. 13. The comment is part of a longer paragraph and does not appear in quotations in Cameron's book, and other sources http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22not%20everything%20that%20can%20be%20counted%20counts%22%20cameron&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp such as The Student's Companion to Sociology (p. 92) http://books.google.com/books?id=KMsB1GE8dBEC&lpg=PA92&dq=%22Not%20everything%20that%20can%20be%20counted%20counts%22&pg=PA92#v=onepage&q=%22Not%20everything%20that%20can%20be%20counted%20counts%22&f=false attribute the quote to Cameron. A number of recent books http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=p&tbs=bks:1&q=%22not+everything+that+can+be+counted%22+einstein+princeton&start=0&sa=N claim that Einstein had a sign with these words in his office in Princeton, but until a reliable historical source can be found to support this, skepticism is warranted. The earliest source on Google Books that mentions the quote in association with Einstein and Princeton is Charles A. Garfield's 1986 book Peak Performers: The New Heroes of American Business, in which he wrote on p. 156:
: Albert Einstein liked to underscore the micro/macro partnership with a remark from Sir George Pickering that he chalked on the blackboard in his office at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
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Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
