Famous Quotes Of Philosophy

Question 1

“Religion is the opioid of the masses”

Answer 1

Karl Marx: German polymath who is the co-writer of The Communist Manifesto and founder of Marxism

Question 2

“Power over persons is so dangerous it is a thing that only those can be trusted with it who do not want it”

Answer 2

Plato: Greek, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, wrote The Republic, wrote Allegory of the Cave

Question 3

“To struggle and to understand, never the last without the first”

Answer 3

George Mallory: English mountaineer, possibly first to ever summit Everest

Question 4

“The unexamined life is not worth living”

Answer 4

Socrates: Greek philosopher, founder of western philosophy, taught Plato

Question 5

“Today is your victory over yourself of yesterday, tomorrow your victory over lesser men”

Answer 5

Miyamoto Musashi: Undefeated samurai, writer of The Book of Five Rings

Question 6

“The way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death”

Answer 6

Miyamoto Musashi: Undefeated samurai, writer of The Book of Five Rings

Question 7

“What we know is a drop, what we do not is an ocean”

Answer 7

Isaac Newton: English mathematician, key figure of the Enlightenment, one of the founders of modern physics

Question 8

“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

Answer 8

Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher and cultural critic

Question 9

“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

Answer 9

Frederick Nietzche: German Philsopher

Question 10

If god does not exist, it would be necessary to invent him

Answer 10

Voltaire, a French philosopher and writer, famous for separating church and state

Question 11

There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it.

Answer 11

Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher and cultural critic

Question 12

To understand the picture, one must divine the painter

Answer 12

Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher and social critic

Question 13

I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

Answer 13

Charles Darwin: Englishman of the 19th century popular for contributions to evolutionary biology, namely On The Origin Of Species

Question 14

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

Answer 14

Albert Camus’ work The Myth of Sisyphus

Question 15

Duty is given us in order to kill the self—and I allow so precious an instrument to grow rusty

Answer 15

Simone Weil

Question 16

The hour that gives us life begins to take it away

Answer 16

Seneca: Roman stoic philosopher and statesmen

Question 17

I will do what I must, come what may

Answer 17

Simone de Beauvoir; the ethics of ambiguity

Question 18

If knowledge cannot be measured, it is meager and unsatisfactory

Answer 18

Lord Kelvin (William Thompson): Scottish-Irish mathematician famous for inventing the eponymous international system of absolute temperature

Question 19

It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable of

Answer 19

Socrates

Question 20

But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Answer 20

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: author of Gulag Archipelago

Question 21

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell

Answer 21

Edward Abby: American environmental advocate

Question 22

Why is that when I ask for a pair of hands, a brain comes attached?

Answer 22

Henry Ford: American business tycoon who popularized and championed the assembly line

Question 23

A prince who is not he himself wise cannot be well advised

Answer 23

Machiavelli: Italian philosopher and political advisor, author of The Prince

Question 24

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Answer 24

Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, essayist. and statesman

Question 25

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post, as soon as there is no enemy in the field

Answer 25

John Stuart Mill: 19th century English philosopher and influential thinker on liberalism

Question 26

We don’t rise to our expectations; we fall to the level of our training

Answer 26

Archilochus: Greek poet

Question 27

Reason is the slave of the passions

Answer 27

David Hume: Scottish philosopher and economist who is well known for the discovery of the "problem of induction"

Question 28

Pulling out the weeds, we give nourishment to the plant.

Answer 28

Shunryu Suzuki

Question 29

"The sub man makes his way across a world deprived of meaning toward a death which merely confirms his long negation of himself"

Answer 29

Simone De Beauvoir

Question 30

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

Answer 30

Heraclitus: Pre-Socratic Greek Philosopher

Question 31

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Answer 31

Theodore Roosevelt: President from 1901 to 1909.