Philosophy Quote by Ray Monk

The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they…

— Tim Crane

“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the…

— Stephen Hawking

“Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.”

— Ray Monk

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about…

— Michael Dummett

“Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions actually mean.…

— Moritz Schlick

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

— Baruch Spinoza

Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure…

— A.C. Grayling

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

“Concepts for a philosopher are only nets for catching sense.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of…

— Anonymous

“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”

— Baruch Spinoza