Philosophy Quotes

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

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

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

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

"The rules of grammar are the rules of our language-games."

"The logical picture of facts is the thought."

"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."

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

"A proposition is a method of symbol construction."

"The more you analyze language, the deeper you see the confusion becomes."

"The limits of language are the limits of logic."

"The eye that sees the world is itself invisible."

"Whereof we speak, thereof we must think."

"The way I have come to think about it is that modern man is not able to accept the meaninglessness of life."

"We are all engaged in a constant process of justifying our actions and beliefs to ourselves."

"The mind abhors inconsistency more than it abhors falsehood."

"The human mind is fundamentally conservative in what it believes."

"When we cannot convince ourselves that we are right, we convince ourselves that we are good."

"The desire for cognitive coherence shapes how we perceive the world."

"The consistency of the self is more important than the accuracy of beliefs."

"We are all engaged in the project of justifying ourselves to ourselves."

"We are motivated to see ourselves in a favorable light, sometimes at the expense of truth."

"We are all engaged in a constant process of self-justification."

"The need to justify our actions can lead us to justify almost anything."

"The mind abhors the void of meaninglessness."

"Philosophy begins with wonder"

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao."

"In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped."

"When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and evil appear."

"Do not seek the because; in itself it is meaningless."