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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
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I think therefore I am.
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To be is to be perceived.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Even while they teach, men learn.
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
G. W. F. Hegel
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.
John Locke
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Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.
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Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
William James
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History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
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Happiness is the highest good.
Aristotle
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.
G. W. F. Hegel
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
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Man is condemned to be free.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
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I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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