Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: ‘This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose – even for transforming murderers into judges.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.
Life / philosophy / suicide
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy’s favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
disturber / peace / philosophy / teach
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
morality / naïveté / philosophy / Politics