Quotes about phil
philosophical tree tragedy
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical air discussion
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
philosophical math reality
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
philosophy skills philosopher
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
philosophical math mountain
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
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.
philosophical mean sun
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
philosophical needs process
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
philosophical way problem
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
philosophical soul faces
The face is the soul of the body.
philosophical language complicated
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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.
philosophical nonsensical found
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
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.
philosophical confusion people
People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.
philosophical holiday goes-on
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
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.
philosophical reality mirrors
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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.
philosophical self soul
The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.
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.
philosophical mean common
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
philosophical boxers philosopher
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
philosophy philosophical mean
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
philosopher should take-your-time
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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.