Wisdom Quotes

"Language is an instrument of communication."

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

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

"The philosopher's task is to show the fly the way out of the bottle."

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

"The sense of the world must lie outside the world."

"Grammar is not natural law."

"The nonsensical cannot be said."

"We have misconstrued the logic of our ordinary language."

"To be sure of a thing is to know it only too well."

"Meaning is use, and use is social."

"We are in the grip of a picture that holds us captive."

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

"The meaning of a question is the method of answering it."

"Philosophy begins with wonder, not argument."

"We need a new way of looking at the old facts."

"What we cannot think we cannot say."

"Language is a form of life."

"To understand is to see connections."

"The philosopher leaves everything as it is."

"The essence of language lies in its use."

"We should be suspicious of theories that promise to eliminate hard problems."

"We should resist the temptation to trivialize the mind-body problem."

"The explanatory success of folk psychology deserves philosophical respect."

"The hard problem of consciousness requires new conceptual frameworks."

"Mental causation is real even if it seems metaphysically problematic."

"Ordinary language contains the wisdom of centuries embedded within it."

"Philosophical confusion often arises from misunderstanding our ordinary concepts."

"We must take seriously the way ordinary people actually think and speak."

"The quest for certainty often blinds us to what we already know."