Quotes Flashcards
Superstition sets the whole world in flames;
Philosophy quenches them - Voltaire
There is nothing either good or bad,
But thinking makes it so - Shakespeare
Scepticism is
The first step towards truth - Denis Diderot
Knowing others is intelligence;
Knowing yourself is true wisdom - Laozi
What you know, you know,
What you don’t know, you don’t know. That is true wisdom - Confucius
The life which is unexamined
Is not worth living - Socrates
There is only one good: knowledge;
And one evil: ignorance - Socrates
I know nothing except
The fact of my ignorance - Socrates
Under capitalism in the US, everyone is
‘Cheerful robots’ - Wright Mills
Discourse transmits and produces power;
It reinforces it, but also undermines and exposes it - Michel Foucault
Slavery is gone,
But its shadow still lingers - Frederick Douglas
A man who moralises
Is usually a hypocrite - Oscar Wilde
He that spares the bad
Injures the good - Thomas Fuller
Harsh laws create
Lawlessness - A.C. Grayling
Nothing emboldens sins
So much as mercy - Shakespeare
Courage can only be felt
By those who are afraid - A.C. Grayling
Grief wounds
More deeply in solitude - Seneca
Those that talk of equality of opportunity
Forget that social games… are not ‘fair games’ - Pierre Bourdieu
The black man is treated as a dangerous outsider
Until he proves he is worthy of trust - Elijah Anderson
Through this anonymity…
Each party acquires an unmerciful matter-of-factness - Georg Simmel
Moral anarchy…
Is the danger we currently face - Amitai Etzioni
Happiness is reached when
A person is ready to be where he is - Desiderius Erasmus
All a man can betray
Is his conscience - Joseph Conrad
[patriotism] … is intimately connected with
The citizens sense of identity - A.C. Grayling
