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.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
Kant's critical philosophy is the most elaborate fit of panic in the history of the Earth.
Lesbianism is the ultimate expression of a feminist philosophy.
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
Chaoist philosophy will again become a dominant intellectual and moral force.
The man who claims to have no need of philosophy is the one most apt to be fooled by it.