Philosophy Quotes

"The essence of philosophy is the attempt to reconcile science with values."

"A picture holds a thousand words, but philosophy holds a thousand pictures."

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

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

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

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

"Our language can be seen as an ancient city; a maze of little streets and squares."

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is look and see."

"Genuine philosophy must start from perplexity, not from false certainty."

"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the bottle."

"The solution to the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time."

"A man can be profoundly mistaken and still be within the language-game."

"Where philosophical problems are conceived, language takes a holiday."

"The good is something beyond the world."

"The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders."

"One cannot think crookedly or correctly."

"The world is determined not by the facts, but by its sense being determined."

"The philosopher's job is like showing you the way out of a fly bottle."

"The real discovery is the one which allows me to stop doing philosophy."

"Propositions are pictures of possible states of affairs."

"Our craving for generality has deep sources."

"We have been bewitched by a picture, and we cannot get out of it."

"The subject does not appear in the proposition; in the proposition it is already presupposed."

"The only certainty is uncertainty itself."

"Language games are the base of how we understand reality."

"A question that cannot be answered is not really a question."

"To understand the world, we must understand ourselves."

"The picture of a fact is a fact itself."

"Meaning is use; use is meaning."

"The form of life is expressed through language."