Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'