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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.

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Since then two experiences have dominated me: philosophy, and the tragic disorder of our whole terrestrial hive.

Olaf Stapledon Philosophy and Living (1939)

Our philosophy as a team is to always be united and do as we feel. 'This is how we've achieved everything so far.

Jenni Hermoso

Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

Ray Bradbury

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times.

John Archibald Wheeler

Philosophy is a state of moral integrity combined with a doctrine of true knowledge concerning reality.

Nilus of Sinai Ascetic Discourse (425)

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

Albert Camus Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960)

Thy steady temper, Portius,
Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar,
In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

Joseph Addison Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

Stand still, and I will read to thee
A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy.

John Donne Poems (1633)

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

Walter Benjamin

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth The Best (1974)

There was a tradition that Pythagoras had himself penetrated to India, and learnt philosophy from the gymnosophists.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869)

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

Slavoj Žižek

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

Jacques Barzun

Work hard and you will make it; at the end, it's all about your design philosophy.

Deepak Perwani

The admission to heaven is faith in Jesus Christ. He is the only way. There is no other philosophy, no religion, no other way.

Paul Enns Heaven Revealed (2011)

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

Alain de Botton The Consolations of Philosophy (2000)

“The professed Philosophy of Evolution is not an adult philosophy, but rather a philosophy that in the course of growth has suffered an arrest of development.”

George Holmes Howison The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905)

Philosophy, in spite of all its tiresome features, is not a luxury but a necessity, because we always have to use it when things get difficult.

Mary Midgley The Owl of Minerva: A Memoir (2005)

For philosophy and history alike have taught...to seek not what is "safe," but what is true.

Henry Sidgwick

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