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Philosophy (PART 1 only) Flashcards

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Anxiety and despair are essential to the human experience

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Our character defines who we are

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Aristotle

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The truth is up there

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Plato

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The truth is here

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Aristotle

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5
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

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Immanuel Kant

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Genuine happiness is never a lifetime

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience

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John Locke

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The unexamined life is not worth living

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Socrates

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The root of evil is ignorance

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Plato

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10
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I not only have a body; I am this body

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Gabriel Marcel

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He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors

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Martin Heidegger

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There is only one good; knowledge, and one evil; ignorance

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Socrates

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

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Aristotle

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14
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong

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Bertrand Russell

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The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

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Thomas Hobbes

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16
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You can discover more of a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”

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Plato

17
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The only thing I know is I know nothing

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Socrates

18
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The truly brave man is one who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures

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Democritus

19
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Man is condemned to be free

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Jean-Paul Sartre

20
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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.

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Aristotle

21
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One cannot step twice in the same river

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Heraclitus

22
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Nothing is permanent except change

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Heraclitus

23
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Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you do not know

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Bertrand Russell

24
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Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward

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Soren Kierkegaard

25
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I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum)

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René Descartes

26
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Perception is not a state of mind but an organism’s entire bodily relation to its environment

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Maurice Merleau

27
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Human beings are, by nature, greedy and selfish

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Thomas Hobbes

28
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That man is the wisest who, like Socrates, realizes his wisdom is worthless

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Plato

29
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What I ought to do

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Immanuel Kant

30
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Self-realization is not accomplished by an act of thinking alone

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Erich Fromm

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