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, being nothing but the study of wisdom and truth...
As solid citizens, philosophers ally themselves in practice with the powers they condemn in theory.
Art shows how it loves, philosophy what it loves; mysticism knows only that it loves.
If Nietzsche is the father of existentialism, then perhaps Darwin deserves the title of grandfather.
This characteristic of Dasein’s being—this “that it is”—is veiled in its “whence” and “whither.”
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
As long as they have the wish to kill, they will not lose the lust to procreate.
After the misfortune of being born, I do not know any greater than giving birth.
What sin have you committed to be born, what crime to exist?