Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher Quotations

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.