When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
