Beginnings and ends Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a publisher cared…

— Luce Irigaray

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

— Plato

“Philosophy itself should not be merely "the pursuit of the knowledge of the truth" but should offer a practical guide for ordinary people in…

— Anthony Pagden

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical…

— Bertrand Russell

“Philosophy, then, is that thinkins with which one can start nothing and about which housemaids necessarily laugh. Such a definition of philosophy is not…

— Martin Heidegger

I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

— Bertrand Russell

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a…

— Francis Schaeffer

“Nature doesn’t know the concept of philosophy, Geralt of Rivia. The pathetic – ridiculous – attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that…

— Susan Griffin