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.
The Theatre of the Absurd attacks the comfortable certainties of religious or political orthodoxy.
Much can be left unstated. But if nothing is discredited, it is not philosophy.
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.
Once again, I want to pray, cry. dissolve, be nothing, return to the initial zero from before birth.
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
The philosopher is not someone who has thought instead of us but rather someone who makes us think.