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Philosophical

Quotes

Ancient

Philosophy700 BCE- 250 CE

Lao Zi•“The dao

that can be

told is not

the eternal

dao.”

Pythagoras•“Reason

immortal,

all else

mortal.”

Buddha•“Happy is

he who

overcome

his ego.”

Confucius• “Hold

faithfulness

sincerity as

principles.”

Heraclatus•“Every-

thing is

flux.”

Protagoras•“Man is

measure

of all

things.”

Mozi• “When one

throws to

me a peach,

I return to

plum.”

Democritus & Leucippus

• “Nothing

exists

except

atoms and

space.”

Socrates, Plato & Aristotle

Socrates•“I am a

citizen of

world.”

Socrates• “I know

nothing

except the

fact of my

ignorance.”

Socrates• “The life

which is

unexamined

is not worth

living.”

Plato• “If particulars

are to have

meaning,

there must be

universals.”

Plato•“Earthly

knowledge

is but

shadow.”

Plato• “What we call

learning is

only a

process of

recollection.”

Aristotle•“All men

by nature

desire to

know.”

Aristotle• “There

never was a

time when

there was

not motion.”

Aristotle•“Truth

resides in

the world

around

us.”

Aristotle• “Every action

must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.”

Diogenes of Sinope

• “He has the

most who is

content with

the least.”

Medieval

Philosophy250-1500

St. Augustine of Hippo

• “What made

Adam capable

of obeying

God’s

commands

also made him

able to sin.”

St. Augustine of Hippo

•“God is

not the

parent of

evil.”

Avicenna•“The soul

is distinct

from the

body.”

St. Anselm• “Just by

thinking

about God

we can

know he

exists.”

Averroes•“Philosophy

and religion

are not

incompatible.”

Maimonides•“God has

attributes.”

St. Thomas Aquinas

•“The

universe

has not

always

existed.”

St. Thomas Aquinas

• “God could

have made

the universe

without

humans and

then made

them.”

Desiderius Erasmus

•“To know

nothing is

happiest

life.”

Philosophy of

the Renaissance

& the Age of

Reason

1500-1750

Niccolò Machiavelli

•“The end

justifies

means.”

Niccolò Machiavelli• “How difficult it

is for a people

accustomed to

live under a

prince to

preserve their

liberty!”

Michel de Montaigne

• “Fame and

tranquility

can never be

bedfellows.”

René Descartes • “Cogito

ergo sum.”

• “I think

therefore I

am.”

René Descartes •“But what

is I that I

thinking

thing.”

Francis Bacon• “Knowledge

is power.”

Thomas Hobbes•“Life is

motion of

limbs.”

Thomas Hobbes•“Man is a

machine.”

Blaise Pascal• “Imagination

decides

everything.”

John Locke• “No man’s

knowledge

here can go

beyond his

experience.”

John Locke• “There is

nothing in

the mind

except was

first in the

senses.”

Gottfried Leibniz• “There are

two kinds of

truths: truths

of reasoning

and truths of

facts.”

George Berkeley

•“To be is to

perceived.”

Philosophy of

the Age of

Revolution

1750-1900

Voltaire• “Doubt is

pleasant

condition,

but certainty

is absurd.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• “L’homme est né libre et partout il est dans les fers.”

• “Man was born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.”

Adam Smith•“Man is an

animal that

bargains.”

Immanuel Kant• “There are

two worlds:

our bodies

and the

external

world.”

Edmund Burke•“Society

is indeed

contract.”

Jeremy Bentham• “The

greatest

happiness

for the

greatest

number.”

Mary Wollstonecraft

•“Mind has

gender.”

Georg Hegel•“Reality is

historical

process.”

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

• “Theology is anthropology.”

Søren Kierkegaard

•“Anxiety

is the

dizziness

freedom.”

John Stuart Mill• “Over his

own body

and mind,

individual is

sovereign.”

Karl Marx• “The history

of all hitherto

existing

society is the

history of

struggle.”

Henry David Thoreau

• “Must the

citizen ever

resign his

conscience

to the

legislator.”

William James• “Act as if

what you do

makes a

difference.”

Modern

Philosophy

1900-1950

Friedrich Nietzsche

• “Man is

something

surpassed.”

Ferdinand de Saussure

•“Every

message

is made

of signs.”

John Dewey• “We only

think when

we are

confronted

problems.”

Bertrand Russell• “The world

has become

more like that

Machiavelli.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

• “The limits

language

are the

limits of my

world.”

Martin Heidegger

•“We are

ourselves

the entities

analyzed.”

Herbert Marcuse•“That

which is

cannot be

true.”

Karl Popper• “In so far as a

scientific

statement

speaks about

reality, it

must be

falsifiable.”

Theodor Adorno• “Intelligence

is a moral

category.”

Jean-Paul Sartre•“Existence

precedes

essence.”

Emmanuel Levinas

•“Reason

lives in

language.”

Simone de Beauvoir

• “Man is

defined as a

being and

woman as a

female.”

Simone de Beauvoir

• “Representation

of the world is

the work of

men; they

describe it from

their own point

of view.”

William van Orman Quine

•“Language

is a social

art.”

Albert Camus•“Life will

be lived all

the better

if it has no

meaning.”

Contemporary

Philosophy

1950-Present

Thomas Kuhn• “Normal

science does

not aim at

novelties of

fact or

theories.”

John Rawls• “The

principles of

justice are

chosen

behind a veil

of ignorance.”

Jean-François Lyotard

• “Knowledge

is produced

to be sold.”

Frantz Fanon• “For the

black man,

there is

only one

destiny and

it is white.”

Michel Foucault•“Man is an

invention

of recent

date.”

Noam Chomsky• “If we

choose, we

can live in a

world of

comforting

illusion.”

Jürgen Habermas • “Society is

dependent

upon a

criticism of

its own

tradition.”

Jacques Derrida•“There is

nothing

outside of

the text.”

Edward Said• “Every empire

tells itself and

the world that

it is unlike all

empires.”

Stephen Hawking• “One may say

that time had a beginning at the Big Bang, in the sense that earlier times simply would not be defined.”

Hélène Cixous •“Thought

has always

worked by

opposition.”

Peter Singer•“In suffering,

the animals

are our

equals.”

Alan Sokal•“But why did I do it? I confess that I'm an unabashed Old Leftist who never quite understood how deconstruction was supposed to help the working class. And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them. ”

Alan Sokal•“Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)”

References:•The philosophy

book: Big ideas

simply explained.

(2011). London &

New York: DK.

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