But if political philosophy is unrealizable in one sense, it is unavoidable in another.
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.
There is absolutely not a shadow of a doubt that the Greeks knew all about Indian philosophy.
These events and my classes changed me forever and helped mold my political philosophy and values.
If we already take for granted what madness is, philosophy becomes completely superfluous.
"Philosophy begins by taking seriously the conceptual resources embedded in African languages."
"Philosophy is meaningful only when it responds to the lived realities of human beings."
"The task of philosophy is to liberate the mind from unexamined assumptions."
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
The task of philosophy is to recover the totality obscured by the selection.