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.
"The purpose of philosophy is to cultivate critical thinking, not blind belief."
"Philosophy begins when we learn to listen to the voice of the other."
I believe we may now have some opportunity to make greater contributions to philosophy.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.