Quotes About Philosophy

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself. (Wittgenstein commenting on Sartre's Hell is other people.

This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it-or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if it afforded pleasure to one who read it with understanding.

Roughly speaking: objects are colourless

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. For it cannot give any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is.

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.

Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

All numbers in logic must be capable of justification.   Or rather it must become plain that there are no numbers in logic.   There are no pre-eminent numbers.

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

In this sort of predicament, always ask yourself: How did we learn the meaning of this word (good, for instance)? From what sort of examples? In what language-games? Then it will be easier for you to see that the word must have a family of meanings.

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves