Philosophy Quotes

"To interpret is always to interpret from a particular standpoint within history."

"Every individual perspective contributes something irreplaceable to human understanding."

"The interpretation of human experience is the central task of philosophy."

"To be human is to be interpretive, to ceaselessly make meaning of existence."

"Each generation faces the task of making sense of the world anew."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"The picture held us captive, and we could not get outside it."

"In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable."

"Most of the propositions and questions of philosophers arise from our failure to understand the logic of our language."

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

"Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity."

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

"The task of philosophy is to work out the problems that baffle us."

"A logical picture of facts is a thought."

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

"The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

"Incompleteness is not incompleteness, only when compared to a notion of completeness."

"The facts all contribute to only one end; the end we do not know."

"Whereof one cannot think, thereof one cannot speak."

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

"When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there."

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

"A curious thing about the ontological argument is that it is supposed to show that, starting from the concept of existence, we can derive the existence of God."

"Only describe, don't explain."

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

"The picture must represent the world as it is."

"A proposition is a picture of reality."

"The subject of thought is surely something sublime."

"Philosophy aims at the clarification of thoughts."

"I sit like a man playing chess who, from his intense study of the game, has forgotten the original idea of trying to win."