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Philosophical
Quotes
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Ancient
Philosophy700 BCE- 250 CE
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Lao Zi•“The dao
that can be
told is not
the eternal
dao.”
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Pythagoras•“Reason
is
immortal,
all else
mortal.”
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Buddha•“Happy is
he who
has
overcome
his ego.”
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Confucius• “Hold
faithfulness
and
sincerity as
first
principles.”
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Heraclatus•“Every-
thing is
flux.”
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Protagoras•“Man is
the
measure
of all
things.”
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Mozi• “When one
throws to
me a peach,
I return to
him a
plum.”
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Democritus & Leucippus
• “Nothing
exists
except
atoms and
empty
space.”
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Socrates, Plato & Aristotle
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Socrates•“I am a
citizen of
the
world.”
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Socrates• “I know
nothing
except the
fact of my
ignorance.”
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Socrates• “The life
which is
unexamined
is not worth
living.”
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Plato• “If particulars
are to have
meaning,
there must be
universals.”
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Plato•“Earthly
knowledge
is but
shadow.”
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Plato• “What we call
learning is
only a
process of
recollection.”
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Aristotle•“All men
by nature
desire to
know.”
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Aristotle• “There
never was a
time when
there was
not motion.”
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Aristotle•“Truth
resides in
the world
around
us.”
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Aristotle• “Every action
must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.”
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Diogenes of Sinope
• “He has the
most who is
most
content with
the least.”
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Medieval
Philosophy250-1500
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St. Augustine of Hippo
• “What made
Adam capable
of obeying
God’s
commands
also made him
able to sin.”
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St. Augustine of Hippo
•“God is
not the
parent of
evil.”
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Avicenna•“The soul
is distinct
from the
body.”
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St. Anselm• “Just by
thinking
about God
we can
know he
exists.”
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Averroes•“Philosophy
and religion
are not
incompatible.”
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Maimonides•“God has
no
attributes.”
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St. Thomas Aquinas
•“The
universe
has not
always
existed.”
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St. Thomas Aquinas
• “God could
have made
the universe
without
humans and
then made
them.”
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Desiderius Erasmus
•“To know
nothing is
the
happiest
life.”
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Philosophy of
the Renaissance
& the Age of
Reason
1500-1750
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Niccolò Machiavelli
•“The end
justifies
the
means.”
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Niccolò Machiavelli• “How difficult it
is for a people
accustomed to
live under a
prince to
preserve their
liberty!”
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Michel de Montaigne
• “Fame and
tranquility
can never be
bedfellows.”
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René Descartes • “Cogito
ergo sum.”
• “I think
therefore I
am.”
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René Descartes •“But what
is I that I
am? A
thinking
thing.”
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Francis Bacon• “Knowledge
is power.”
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Thomas Hobbes•“Life is
but a
motion of
limbs.”
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Thomas Hobbes•“Man is a
machine.”
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Blaise Pascal• “Imagination
decides
everything.”
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John Locke• “No man’s
knowledge
here can go
beyond his
experience.”
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John Locke• “There is
nothing in
the mind
except was
first in the
senses.”
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Gottfried Leibniz• “There are
two kinds of
truths: truths
of reasoning
and truths of
facts.”
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George Berkeley
•“To be is to
be
perceived.”
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Philosophy of
the Age of
Revolution
1750-1900
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Voltaire• “Doubt is
not a
pleasant
condition,
but certainty
is absurd.”
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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.”
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Adam Smith•“Man is an
animal that
makes
bargains.”
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Immanuel Kant• “There are
two worlds:
our bodies
and the
external
world.”
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Edmund Burke•“Society
is indeed
a
contract.”
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Jeremy Bentham• “The
greatest
happiness
for the
greatest
number.”
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Mary Wollstonecraft
•“Mind has
no
gender.”
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Georg Hegel•“Reality is
a
historical
process.”
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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
• “Theology is anthropology.”
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Søren Kierkegaard
•“Anxiety
is the
dizziness
of
freedom.”
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John Stuart Mill• “Over his
own body
and mind,
the
individual is
sovereign.”
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Karl Marx• “The history
of all hitherto
existing
society is the
history of
class
struggle.”
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Henry David Thoreau
• “Must the
citizen ever
resign his
conscience
to the
legislator.”
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William James• “Act as if
what you do
makes a
difference.”
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Modern
Philosophy
1900-1950
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Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Man is
something
to be
surpassed.”
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Ferdinand de Saussure
•“Every
message
is made
of signs.”
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John Dewey• “We only
think when
we are
confronted
with
problems.”
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Bertrand Russell• “The world
has become
more like that
of
Machiavelli.”
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
• “The limits
of my
language
are the
limits of my
world.”
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Martin Heidegger
•“We are
ourselves
the entities
to be
analyzed.”
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Herbert Marcuse•“That
which is
cannot be
true.”
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Karl Popper• “In so far as a
scientific
statement
speaks about
reality, it
must be
falsifiable.”
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Theodor Adorno• “Intelligence
is a moral
category.”
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Jean-Paul Sartre•“Existence
precedes
essence.”
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Emmanuel Levinas
•“Reason
lives in
language.”
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Simone de Beauvoir
• “Man is
defined as a
human
being and
woman as a
female.”
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Simone de Beauvoir
• “Representation
of the world is
the work of
men; they
describe it from
their own point
of view.”
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William van Orman Quine
•“Language
is a social
art.”
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Albert Camus•“Life will
be lived all
the better
if it has no
meaning.”
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Contemporary
Philosophy
1950-Present
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Thomas Kuhn• “Normal
science does
not aim at
novelties of
fact or
theories.”
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John Rawls• “The
principles of
justice are
chosen
behind a veil
of ignorance.”
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Jean-François Lyotard
• “Knowledge
is produced
to be sold.”
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Frantz Fanon• “For the
black man,
there is
only one
destiny and
it is white.”
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Michel Foucault•“Man is an
invention
of recent
date.”
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Noam Chomsky• “If we
choose, we
can live in a
world of
comforting
illusion.”
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Jürgen Habermas • “Society is
dependent
upon a
criticism of
its own
tradition.”
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Jacques Derrida•“There is
nothing
outside of
the text.”
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Edward Said• “Every empire
tells itself and
the world that
it is unlike all
other
empires.”
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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.”
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Hélène Cixous •“Thought
has always
worked by
opposition.”
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Peter Singer•“In suffering,
the animals
are our
equals.”
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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. ”
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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.)”
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References:•The philosophy
book: Big ideas
simply explained.
(2011). London &
New York: DK.
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Philosophical
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