Then philosophy appeared, and [finally] overthrew all the rules of the ancient polity.
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.
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!