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“The unexamined life is not worth living” –
Socrates
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” –
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” –
William of Ockham
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” –
Thomas Hobbes
“I think therefore I am” (“Cogito, ergo sum”) –
René Descartes
“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors” –
Martin Heidegger
“We live in the best of all possible worlds” –
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational” –
G. W. F. Hegel
“God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.” –
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” –
Albert Camus
“One cannot step twice in the same river” –
Heraclitus
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation” –
Jeremy Bentham
“To be is to be perceived” (“Esse est percipi”)–
Bishop George Berkeley
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination” –
Immanuel Kant
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience” –
John Locke
“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us” –
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires” –
John Stuart Mill
“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true” –
Bertrand Russell
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” –
Socrates
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him” –
Voltaire
“This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities” –
Bertrand Russell
“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another” –
René Descartes
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy” –
Thomas Hobbes
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language” –
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers” –
William James
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” –
Aristotle
“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me” –
G. W. F. Hegel
“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” –
John Locke
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ” –
Søren Kierkegaard
“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know” –
Bertrand Russell
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck” –
Immanuel Kant
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits” –
William James
“History is Philosophy teaching by examples” –
Thucydides
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god” –
Aristotle
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” –
Plato
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly” –
Francis Bacon
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” –
mistakenly attributed to Edmund Burke
“Is man merely a mistake of God'n? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” –
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong” –
Bertrand Russell
“Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people” –
Karl Marx
“Happiness is the highest good” –
Aristotle
“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil” –
Baruch Spinoza
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it” –
Epicurus
“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable” –
G. W. F. Hegel
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness” –
Immanuel Kant
“Man is condemned to be free” –
Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth” –
John Locke
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves” –
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless” –
Plato
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing” –
Socrates
“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” –
Voltaire (in parody of Leibniz)
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays” –
Søren Kierkegaard
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains” –
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” –
Denis Diderot
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things” –
René Descartes
“Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative” –
Aristotle
“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature” –
Spinoza
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it” –
Karl Marx
“It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence” –
W. K. Clifford
“Virtue is nothing else than right reason” –
Seneca the Younger
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire” –
Epictetus
“In everything, there is a share of everything” –
Anaxagoras
“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion” –
Sir Francis Bacon
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” –
Democritus
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature” –
John Locke
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality” –
John Stuart Mill
“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident” –
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is the measure of all things” –
Protagoras
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone” –
St. Augustine
“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” –
John Locke
"Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opurtunity" -
Seneca
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