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.
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
The skeptical view appears to me out of harmony with the inductive philosophy.