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.
The point is that philosophy is seen to have come full circle, and to have exhausted itself.
Nietzsche's problem is how to be a philosopher once he has grasped the finitude of philosophy.
Those who can kill themselves do, and those who can’t, teach philosophy.
“Babydoll, when ain’nuthin funny, eat what’s sweet. That’s my philosophy.”
We trolls say: “Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.”
"Philosophy flourishes where people are willing to question inherited assumptions."