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Philosophy Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
- The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
- Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
- I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil…
- Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common…
- The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
- I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
- A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
- 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.
- Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
- It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
- The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that…
- Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine…
- Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
- There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a…
- 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…
- In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may…
- For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at…
- I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
More Philosophy Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon