Philosophy Role Quotes

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

The responsibility of political philosophy that tries to engage with practice is to be clear, or at least accessible.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.

I have often said that philosophy is better at questions than at answers – and that's nontrivial. They don't think it's their job to understand how things actually work, whereas I think that should be the job of philosophers.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .