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.

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When he was asked what advantage had accrued to him from philosophy, his answer was, “The ability to hold converse with myself.”

Antisthenes

Do your own thing, be your own king, that’s my philosophy. Lead or get out of the way.

Tony Vigorito Nine Kinds of Naked (2008)

Sole a catinelle. Zalone fully expresses the positive, generous, anti-communist, moderate, serene philosophy of Berlusconi and Forza Italia.

Renato Brunetta

Philosophy — in every field of inquiry — is what you have to do until you figure out what questions you should have been asking in the first place.

Daniel Dennett Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (2013)

Our system of philosophy is itself on trial; it must stand or fall according as it is broad enough to find room for this experience as an element of life.

Arthur Eddington Science and the Unseen World (1929)