Philosophy Quotes

"Our thoughts are the architects of our experience."

"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought about that which everybody sees."

"Children are natural philosophers."

"Common sense is a guide to understanding power structures."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

"What can be said at all can be said clearly; what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."

"The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world."

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to."

"What is the point of philosophy if it does not transcend the sciences?"

"In the end, I believe that we ought to give up the attempt to think of facts as things that are independent of us."

"The purpose of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the bottle."

"The more we can forget the history of philosophy the more clearly we can see the world."

"The sense of the world must lie outside the world."

"There is no such thing as philosophy in the usual sense of the word. All that we have is specialized sciences."

"The wonder of wondering at how anything can be at all is the mark of philosophical wonder."

"Language is the instrument of thought."

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

"The mind organizes experience through linguistic categories."

"The structure of sentences reflects the structure of thoughts."

"The philosophy of language is the foundation of all philosophy."

"The mind is a linguistic entity."

"Semantic analysis reveals the hidden structure of thought."

"The structure of language mirrors the structure of mind."

"Meaning is both discovered and created."

"Language is the vehicle through which we access reality."

"The philosophy of language is the key to all other philosophy."

"Concepts are the warp and woof of human experience."

"Semantic competence is the basis of all human knowledge."