“If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”
More from Ludwig Wittgenstein on Philosophy
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
“Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.”
“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”
“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”
“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”
“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
“I am my world.”
“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Others on Philosophy
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Hermann Hesse
13 quotes“The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner co...”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”