Quotes About Philosophy

Ich möchte den Ausdruck ' Ich weiß ' für die Fälle reservieren , in denen er im normalen Sprachverkehr gebraucht wird.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Die Probleme werden gelöst, nicht durch Beibringen neuer Erfahrung, sondern durch Zusammenstellung des längst Bekannten. Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache.

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

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.

Nicht wie die Welt ist, ist das Mystische, sondern daß sie ist.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know

Tem de admitir-se que é verdade que saber qualquer coisa não implica pensar nisso - mas alguém que saiba de alguma coisa não tem de ser capaz de duvidar dela? E duvidar significa pensar.

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We here touch one instance of Wittgenstein's fundamental thesis, that it is impossible to say anything about the world as a whole, and that whatever can be said has to be about bounded portions of the world.

There is not a single philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, different therapies, as it were.

I conceive the proposition—like Frege and Russell—as a function of the expressions contained in it.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Gränserna för mitt språk innebär gränserna för min värld.

ÖÄŸretmek istediÄŸim ÅŸey ÅŸu: Örtük bir saçmal?ktan aç?k bir saçmal??a geçmek.

In order to avoid these errors, we must employ a symbolism which excludes them, by not applying the same sign in different symbols and by not applying signs in the same way which signify in different ways. A symbolism, that is to say, which obeys the rules of logical grammar—of logical syntax. (The logical symbolism of Frege and Russell is such a language, which, however, does still not exclude all errors.)

the tendency of all men who ever tried to write or talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless.

If a sign is not necessary then it is meaningless. That is the meaning of Occam's razor. (If everything in the symbolism works as though a sign had meaning, then it has meaning.)

To pray is to think about the meaning of life.

Vi känner att även när alla möjliga vetenskapliga frågor har besvarats, så har våra livsproblem inte ens blivit berörda. Då återstår förstås inte heller någon fråga - och just det är svaret.

The form is the possibility of the structure.

The proposition constructs a world with the help of a logical scaffolding, and therefore one can actually see in the proposition all the logical features possessed by reality if it is true. One can draw conclusions from a false proposition

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.