Academics Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein Download Open image ““Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”” — Ludwig Wittgenstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academics Critical thinking Education Higher learning Intellectualism Philosophy Wisdom
“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“The words most charged with philosophy are not necessarily those that contain what they say, but rather those that most energetically open upon Being,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Deeds are divine, not doctrines. Actions are religious, not creeds.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a… — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
“The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.” — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I excelled in my academics. But, I also was a cheerleader and I ran track. — Rubi Rose Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the merely ordinary… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
“There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
