Philosophy (PART 1 only) Flashcards
Anxiety and despair are essential to the human experience
Soren Kierkegaard
Our character defines who we are
Aristotle
The truth is up there
Plato
The truth is here
Aristotle
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination
Immanuel Kant
Genuine happiness is never a lifetime
Jean-Paul Sartre
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience
John Locke
The unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates
The root of evil is ignorance
Plato
I not only have a body; I am this body
Gabriel Marcel
He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors
Martin Heidegger
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
Bertrand Russell
The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
Thomas Hobbes
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
The truly brave man is one who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures
Democritus
Man is condemned to be free
Jean-Paul Sartre
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
One cannot step twice in the same river
Heraclitus
Nothing is permanent except change
Heraclitus
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you do not know
Bertrand Russell
Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward
Soren Kierkegaard
I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum)
René Descartes
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
What I ought to do
Immanuel Kant
Self-realization is not accomplished by an act of thinking alone
Erich Fromm
