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.
I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.
You can't be a philosopher and an activist. If you do, you get all mixed up.
"All people are philosophers and all believers are theologians."
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
"Marriage is a philosophy that should be entered without many philosophize."
Scarce friends, not lovers (each avers),
But sexless, safe Philosophers.
She had majored in Philosophy at Vassar. It wasn’t the sort of thing one got over easily.