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.
As Bob Dylan forgot to say, "To live outside the law, you must be lucky."
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.
I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.
Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.
The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.