Philosophy Quotes

"Belief systems are self-reinforcing and self-defending; they evolve to preserve themselves."

"Every belief we hold is both a window and a wall."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live, not merely how to think."

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

"If I have exhausted the justifications I have reached bedrock, and my spade is turned."

"Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday."

"Logic must take care of itself."

"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"

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

"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is."

"What is the object of philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the bottle."

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

"Augustine does not get close to the problems of language."

"In philosophy we often compare different languages."

"The world is the totality of facts, not things."

"The method of philosophy is to assemble reminders for a particular purpose."

"Most of the propositions and questions of philosophers are not false but nonsensical."

"Skepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical."

"It is clear that all the propositions of logic are of equal status."

"Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces."

"The subject is the willing subject, not the desiring subject."

"How strange it would be if logic were concerned with an 'ideal' language."

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

"The facts of the world do not consist entirely of names."

"In philosophy the only discipline is to go on asking questions."

"We are not in agreement about the boundaries of our concepts."

"The object of philosophy is the actual presentation of the facts."

"Philosophy leaves everything as it is."

"Logic fills the world; the limits of the world are also its limits."

"The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness."