Philosophy Quotes

"If a man could not speak, he would not be a man."

"Everything that happens is an accident of the world."

"We are bewitched by language."

"The elementary propositions are independent of one another."

"Language disguises thought."

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

"Every sign is capable of being the sign of any object."

"One does not use language to state falsehoods in the way one uses a tool."

"Identity is not a relation between objects."

"A question has meaning only if an answer is possible."

"Rules do not determine the form of life."

"The understanding of simple juxtapositions belongs to logic."

"It would be possible to imagine someone who did not need to think in order to act."

"Objects are simple."

"The totality of elementary propositions is the world."

"We must not say that every rule is a law of nature; some are merely human conventions."

"The form of an object is part of the object itself."

"The axis of reference of the world may not be sought within the world."

"All the propositions of logic are tautologies."

"Every language game is self-contained and serves its purpose."

"We picture facts to ourselves."

"Man is the measure of all things philosophical."

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

"The real way is not a path, but an understanding."

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness."

"To see all things as one is the beginning of enlightenment."

"Struggle with problems and you strengthen them."

"All things return to their source in the end."

"People are all basically the same. Only the window dressing is different."

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."