Philosophy Quotes

"Every logical argument is an argument about meaning and reference."

"Semantic analysis is the foundation of all philosophical progress."

"The formal study of language is ultimately the formal study of human nature."

"Meaning cannot be separated from the minds that create and interpret it."

"Every philosophical problem is, at its root, a problem of language."

"Every statement about reality presupposes a framework of meaning."

"Every meaningful claim about the world is a claim about language and reality."

"Logical form is the skeleton on which the flesh of meaning hangs."

"Language is both a tool for understanding and an obstacle to be overcome."

"The study of language is the study of the human condition itself."

"Language is the mirror in which we see ourselves and our world."

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

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

"The more narrowly we examine actual language, the sharper becomes the conflict between it and our requirement."

"Mysticism is not how the world is, but that it is."

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

"Language disguises thought."

"The correct method in philosophy would really be the following: to say nothing except what can be said."

"The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose."

"An inner process stands in need of outward criteria."

"Wittgenstein's Ladder: Whereof one cannot speak, one must climb up it and then throw it away."

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

"The facts in logical space are the world."

"The totality of existing states of affairs is the world."

"Objects form the substance of the world."

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

"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."

"The world divides into facts."

"The thinking subject is surely pure and simple, and not the body."

"Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is."