Philosophy Quotes
Emil Cioran has the most entries on this page, ahead of Schopenhauer, Bertrand Russell, Kierkegaard and Camus. If you want a sourced place to begin, Russell’s Theory of Knowledge (1913) has the remark that people beginning to philosophize seem to think they must make themselves artificially stupid.
Three entries are flagged. The sentence that the sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language is credited to Wittgenstein as disputed; the version on the page comes from a later writer complaining about it. The passage on heroic love in the name of Giordano Bruno is also disputed, and the notes give an Italian original from Francesco De Sanctis’s history of literature (1871). The one about shabby ideas and shoddy furniture is credited to Einstein and flagged misattributed.
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."
Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.