Quotes about philosophy
philosophy want sound
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy irritation long
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
philosophy skills philosopher
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
philosophy doors trying
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
philosophy tasks analysis
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
philosophy philosophical body
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
philosophy use may
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
philosophy common-sense three
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
philosophy limits unthinkable
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
philosophy simple thinking
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
philosophy giving tasks
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.
philosophy opposites important
A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
philosophy philosophical mean
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.
philosophy fighting expression
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
philosophy philosophical silence
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
philosophy philosophical mean
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
philosophy garden tree
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
philosophy philosophical humor
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
philosophy passion men
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves. Luc de Clapiers
philosophy philosopher sincerity
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
philosophy atheism causes
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. Louis Pasteur
philosophy laughing sublime
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
philosophy philosopher truth-is
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. John Churton Collins
philosophy confusion people
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. John Cheever
philosophy government libertarian
Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard. John Bolton
philosophy government people
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
philosophy thinking way
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times John Archibald Wheeler
philosophy believe men
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.
philosophy writing play
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. Eric Hoffer
philosophy people wish
You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not. Napoleon Hill
philosophy virtue skepticism
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. Napoleon Bonaparte
philosophy war hate
The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world. Norman Thomas
philosophy clock exception
Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock. Norman Mailer