Quotes About Philosophy

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.

We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.

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?

So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.

There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

There can never be surprises in logic.

a nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.