A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.
If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.
All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
There can never be surprises in logic.
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
"Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.
Golden is a surface colour.
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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.
Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
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