“Pragmatism” is only a new term to designate “Opportunism” in philosophy.
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 is a concentrated deployment of the transgressing facilities of the mind.
Philosophy is not a system of propositions, and not a science.
This union, which is dominated by some socialist philosophy, is not fit for purpose.
I am!—he cries, and a million philosophies cry out in wonder.
The Constitution does not and cannot have either an ideology or a partisan philosophy.
Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a better and more certain aim.
"African philosophy is a reflection on African experience in all its dimensions."
"Philosophy must engage with the realities of the society from which it emerges."
"Philosophy is not the repetition of tradition but the critical examination of it."
"African philosophy begins with the concrete historical experience of African peoples."
"Philosophy is an invitation to question what appears obvious."