Philosophy Quotes

"The nothing nothings."

"The nothing is the veil of being."

"Man stands in the clearing of being."

"Being and nothingness are the same."

"Thinking is poetry in the essential sense."

"Being reveals itself in language through authentic speech."

"Man is the being through whom nothing happens without being thought."

"The question 'what is being' is the most universal of questions."

"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."

"Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday."

"Whereof we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."

"To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."

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

"Logic is transcendental."

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

"I am not interested in constructing a building of thought, but in placing before myself the foundations of possible buildings."

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

"Language disguises the thought so that when we look at the sentence we do not see the thought behind it."

"At the end of reasons comes persuasion."

"One cannot think about thinking without thinking of thinking."

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

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

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

"The picture held us captive."

"Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses."

"The elementary propositions of logic are the tautologies."

"The good is beyond all value judgments."

"Language is like an ancient city which has grown in a complicated way."

"The subject of ethics does not exist."