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.
True philosophy is a living wisdom, for which there is no death.
You look at my own life history, you see that philosophy runs throughout my body.
All philosophy is essentially an historical and time bound interpretation of being.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing.
Cooking is a philosophy, it's not a recipe. Unless it's pastry, then it's chemistry.