Quotes about philosophical
philosophical destiny grieving
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell
philosophical paris looks
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Friedrich Engels
philosophical civilization greed
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
philosophical law criminals
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
philosophical different philosopher
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophical thinking disease
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
philosophical ladders world
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.
philosophical giving logic
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
philosophical reap remarks
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
philosophical common-sense temptation
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense....
philosophical said
What can be shown, cannot be said.
philosophical independent world
The world is independent of my will.
philosophical contradiction tautology
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
philosophical sleep science
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
philosophical tree tragedy
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
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.
philosophical math mountain
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
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.
philosophical nonsensical found
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
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
philosophical reality mirrors
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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.
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.
philosophical leisure insight
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
philosophical lasts
Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts. Philip Roth
philosophical years two
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible. Sam Harris