Quotes About Clarity

Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

Our investigation is a grammatical one. Such an investigation sheds light on our problem by clearing misunderstandings away. Misunderstandings concerning the use of words, caused, among other things, by certain analogies between the forms of expression in different regions of language.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

The difficult thing here is not, to dig down to the ground; no, it is to recognize the ground that lies before us as the ground. For the ground keeps on giving us the illusory image of a greater depth, and when we seek to reach this, we keep on finding ourselves on the old level. Our disease is one of wanting to explain.

Our motto might be: Let us not be bewitched.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.   Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.   A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.   The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear.   Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear. Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

Most propositions and questions that have been written about philosophical matters are not false but senseless.

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

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

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. (That so often happens with someone you love.)

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

Unsere Zivilisation ist durch das Wort Fortschritt charakterisiert. Der Fortschritt ist ihre Form nicht eine ihrer Eigenschaften daß sie fortschrietet. Sie ist typisch aufbauend. Ihre Tätigkeit ist es ein immer komplizierteres Gebilde zu konstruieren. Und auch die Klarheit dient doch nur wieder diesem Zweck und ist nicht Selbstzweck. Mir dagegen ist die Klarheit, die Durchsichtigkeit, Selbstzweck.

Say what you choose, so long as it does not prevent you from seeing the facts. (And when you see them there is a good deal that you will not say.)

A good objection helps one forward, a shallow objection, even if it is valid, is wearisome. ... The objection does not seize the matter by its root, where the life is, but so far outside that nothing can be rectified even if it is wrong. A good objection helps directly towards a solution, a shallow one must first be overcome and can, from then on, be left to one side. Just as a tree bends at a knot in the trunk in order to grow on.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one

Una frontera indefinida no es frontera en absoluto.

Dalle vette nuvolose delle sue astrazioni il signor Anselmo lasciava spesso precipitar così, come valanghe, i suoi pensieri. La ragione, il nesso, l'opportunità di essi rimanevano lassù, tra le nuvole, dimodochè difficilmente a chi lo ascoltava riusciva di capirci qualche cosa.

Mi basterà, stai sicura, questa indifferenza, per aver coraggio, non già davanti a un uomo, che è nulla; ma davanti a tutti e sempre. Vivo in tal clima, cara che posso non curarmi di niente; della morte come della vita, figurati poi del ridicolo degli uomini e dei loro meschini giudizio. Non temere. Ho capito il giuoco.

Nulla turba e sconcerta piú di due occhi vani che dimostrino di non vederci, o di non vedere ciò che noi vediamo. Perché guardi cosí? E nessuno pensa che tutti dovremmo guardare sempre cosí, ciascuno con gli occhi pieni dell'orrore della propria solitudine senza scampo).

Ma che finzione! Realtà, realtà, signori! Realtà!

how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself.