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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
“In the darkest nights of oppression, the brightest stars of liberation will be born.”
– Great Orod
“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
“Even while they teach, men learn”
– Seneca the Younger
“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 ”
– Sّren 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's? 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”
– Sّren 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 neighbour 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
“All the people of a land should be the leader of freedom and democracy.”
– Great Orod
“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
