Business Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

— Bertrand Russell

Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le premier ne…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own death. All philosophers…

— William Barrett

“What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more…

— Emil M. Cioran

“[Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight…

— John Calvin

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

— 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…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,…

— Lactantius