The systems approach goes on to discovering that every world-view is terribly restricted.
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 philosopher must be above all a free man, and not a slave of the passions.
The will must not only despise death, it must love it; for chastity is the love of death.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself.
In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest—the one who crosses the finish line last.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.