Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

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"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

Bertrand Russell· b. 1872View quote →

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"As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles."

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🇦🇹Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy

analytic philosophy

1845–1925

"What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts."

"Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence."

"Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores."

"Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is known."

"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself."

"Tarski's Semantic Theory on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy."

"Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart on Oxford Reference"

"Such were the lucidity of exposition and his mastery of the topic that it seems possible that, had he ever published it, the political theory of Britain would have been significantly different."

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🇬🇧John Gray (philosopher)

Philosophy

Analytic philosophy

b. 1948

"Science is not distinguished from myth by science being literally true and myth only a type of poetic analogy. While their aims are different, both are composed of symbols we use to deal with a slippery world."

"Could this reaction against the personal by philosophers … be, at bottom, one of fear? … Are … bright people … blindly afraid of their own precarious identity and unspeakable vulnerability as particular bodily beings?"

"Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it."

". "I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!"

"Without some affinity in human ideas art would certainly be impossible; but it can never be exactly determined how far the intentions of the poet are realized."

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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."

— Bertrand Russell, b. 1872View →

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

— Bertrand Russell, b. 1872View →

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

— Bertrand Russell, b. 1872View →

"War does not determine who is right — only who is left."

— Bertrand Russell, b. 1872View →

"As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles."

— Bertrand Russell, b. 1872View →

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