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Philosopher Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common…
- Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.
- A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
- The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
- There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
- Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything…
- A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
- It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
- This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
- I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that…
- Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What…
- This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
- The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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