Quotes about philosophy
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E. M. Forster1879–1970Two Cheers for Democracy (1951), “George and Gide”
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 156
Alan Mooreborn 1953What Is Reality?
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), 1
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Ethics (1677), Part V, Prop. XXIII, Scholium- Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), 1.1
Albert Camus1913–1960The Rebel (1951), Introduction- Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), 5.6
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), IllusionsI should say that the universe is just there, and that is all.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Bertrand Russell v. Frederick Copleston (1948)Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Letter to Gilbert Murray, December 28, 1902If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (15 April 1778) p. 393There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.
Cicero107–43 BCDe Divinatione – On Divination (44 BC), Book II, chapter LVIII, section 119
