Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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 of fault is the greatest fault. At the sight of evil, the mind is immediately polluted.
Nothing remains of the philosophy of '68. Simply because that philosophy never existed.
Almost the whole of Greek science and philosophy begins with Thales.
I don’t concern myself with philosophy, your Highness. I take the world as I find it.
Developed traditions of African philosophy could enrich both Africans and Europeans.
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!