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.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.
Phædrus knows the Professor of Philosophy now. But the Professor of Philosophy doesn't know Phædrus.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.