2,723 Quotes About Philosophical

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense....

What can be shown, cannot be said.

People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.