Quotes about phil
philosophical needs process
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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 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.
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.