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.
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course,
the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.