The things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
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 must engage the concrete realities of society if it is to remain meaningful."
Africa must evolve a philosophy that can provide the intellectual cohesion we so urgently need.
It is by interpreting the symbols of a culture that one can arrive at reflexion, philosophy.
The growth of philosophy in Africa is leading to the demise of African philosophy!
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Philosophy seemed to me the supreme, even the sole, concern of man.