Philosopher Quote by 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

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

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

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

— 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 are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

— Walter Bagehot

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the…

— Girolamo Savonarola

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still…

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves…

— Maimonides