Philo 1 Flashcards
“The unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”
–Thomas Hobbes
“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors”
martin heidegger
The truth is up there
Plato
The truth is here
Aristotle
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination
Immanuel Kant
“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond experience
John Locke
“I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum)
Rene Descartes
“The root of evil is ignorance”
Plato
“One cannot step twice in the same river”
Heraclitus
I not only have a body; I am this body”
Gabriel Marcel
“There is only one good; knowledge, and one evil; ignorance”
Socrates
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
Aristotle
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”
Betrand Russell
“You can discover more of a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”
Plato
“The only thing I know is I know nothing”
Socrates
“Anxiety and despair are essential to the human experience”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The truly brave man is one who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures”
Democritus
. “He who is unable to live in a society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god.
Aristotle
“Nothing is permanent except change”
Heraclitus
“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you do not know”
Betrand Russell
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Perception is not a state of mind but an organism’s entire bodily relation to its environment”
Maurice Merleau
“Human beings are, by nature, greedy and selfish”
Thomas Hobbes
“That man is the wisest who, like Socrates, realizes his wisdom is worthless”
plato
“Our character defines who we are”
Aristotle
“Genuine happiness is never a lifetime”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is condemned to be free”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Self-realization is not accomplished by an act of thinking alone”
Erich Fromm
“The kind of problems we create in a society reflects much on how we cannot handle the insatiable desires or needs that we have”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
