Prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.
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 believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
The "Theatre of the Absurd" has become a catch-phrase, much used and much abused.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.