Ends Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

— Victor Pelevin

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that…

— Thomas Reid

“Philosophy may be sometimes hard to grasp, but it is profoundly meaningful. Mudding the waters under the pretense of doing something meaningful and great…

— Dejan Stojanovic

People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.

— Bettany Hughes

A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks…

— Abraham Kaplan

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

— Michel Serres

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

— Stephen Fry

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

— Anonymous

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute…

— Charles D. Broad

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir