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.
Whatever the case, it would have been better not to be born.
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.
True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence religious.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and which has not ended badly.
Our susceptibility to pain is wellnigh infinite; but that to pleasure has narrow limits.
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
Behind all appearances, I divine a struggling essence. I want to merge with it.