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Single Idea 2937
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
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Full Idea
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
Gist of Idea
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence
Source
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 7)
Book Ref
Wittgenstein,Ludwig: 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Pears)', ed/tr. Pears,D. /McGuinness,B. [RKP 1961], p.74
A Reaction
This is either a boring truism, or points towards some sort of verificationism (where we can speak meaninglessly). Compare Ideas 7973 and 6870.
Related Ideas
Idea 7973
There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard]
Idea 6870
I say (contrary to Wittgenstein) that philosophy expresses what we thought we must be silent about [Ansell Pearson on Wittgenstein]
The
32 ideas
with the same theme
[general remarks about philosophy]:
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162
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Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general?
[Plato]
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326
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For relaxation one can consider the world of change, instead of eternal things
[Plato]
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549
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All philosophy begins from wonder, either at the physical world, or at ideas
[Aristotle]
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1798
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He studied philosophy by suspending his judgement on everything
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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1771
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When shown seven versions of the mowing argument, he paid twice the asking price for them
[Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius]
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3600
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Slow and accurate thought makes the greatest progress
[Descartes]
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17016
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Philosophy must abstract from the senses
[Newton]
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8095
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We must think with our entire body and soul
[Joubert]
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19583
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Philosophy only begins when it studies itself
[Novalis]
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8927
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Philosophy moves essentially in the element of universality
[Hegel]
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21916
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Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free
[Schopenhauer]
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7834
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Great philosophies are confessions by the author, growing out of moral intentions
[Nietzsche]
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4424
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A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat
[Nietzsche]
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7848
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Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
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2909
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned
[Nietzsche]
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4520
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I don't want to persuade anyone to be a philosopher; they should be rare plants
[Nietzsche]
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7846
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Nietzsche thinks philosophy makes us more profound, but not better
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
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22657
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All good philosophers start from a dumb conviction about which truths can be revealed
[James]
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5361
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Philosophers must get used to absurdities
[Russell]
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2937
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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence
[Wittgenstein]
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2626
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A philosopher is outside any community of ideas
[Wittgenstein]
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20435
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If philosophy could be summarised it would be pointless
[Adorno]
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21849
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Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine
[Deleuze]
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21887
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Derrida focuses on other philosophers, rather than on science
[Derrida]
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3269
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If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful
[Nagel]
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3242
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Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture can't skip it
[Nagel]
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7973
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There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say
[Baudrillard]
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9786
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Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard
[Cartwright,R]
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3695
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Philosophy is a priori if it is anything
[Bonjour]
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8220
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Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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22519
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Philosophers are revealed by their fears
[Billington]
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1606
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You have to be a Platonist to debate about reality, so every philosopher is a Platonist
[Roochnik]
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