Conscious Quote by Tim Crane

“Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.”

— Ray Monk

“when Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see:…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

“Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part of the construction, and never find anything simple enough.”

— Ray Monk

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

— Ray Monk

As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity…

— C. D. Broad

“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

“Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence?…

— Stephen Hawking

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Turing attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophy of mathematics in Cambridge in 1939 and disagreed strongly with a line of argument that Wittgenstein was…

— John D. Barrow

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

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

— Bill Gates

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

— Michael Leunig