Quotes

Question 1

Superstition sets the whole world in flames;

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Philosophy quenches them - Voltaire

Question 2

There is nothing either good or bad,

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But thinking makes it so - Shakespeare

Question 3

Scepticism is

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The first step towards truth - Denis Diderot

Question 4

Knowing others is intelligence;

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Knowing yourself is true wisdom - Laozi

Question 5

What you know, you know,

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What you don’t know, you don’t know. That is true wisdom - Confucius

Question 6

The life which is unexamined

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Is not worth living - Socrates

Question 7

There is only one good: knowledge;

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And one evil: ignorance - Socrates

Question 8

I know nothing except

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The fact of my ignorance - Socrates

Question 9

Under capitalism in the US, everyone is

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‘Cheerful robots’ - Wright Mills

Question 10

Discourse transmits and produces power;

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It reinforces it, but also undermines and exposes it - Michel Foucault

Question 11

Slavery is gone,

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But its shadow still lingers - Frederick Douglas

Question 12

A man who moralises

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Is usually a hypocrite - Oscar Wilde

Question 13

He that spares the bad

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Injures the good - Thomas Fuller

Question 14

Harsh laws create

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Lawlessness - A.C. Grayling

Question 15

Nothing emboldens sins

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So much as mercy - Shakespeare

Question 16

Courage can only be felt

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By those who are afraid - A.C. Grayling

Question 17

Grief wounds

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More deeply in solitude - Seneca

Question 18

Those that talk of equality of opportunity

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Forget that social games… are not ‘fair games’ - Pierre Bourdieu

Question 19

The black man is treated as a dangerous outsider

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Until he proves he is worthy of trust - Elijah Anderson

Question 20

Through this anonymity…

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Each party acquires an unmerciful matter-of-factness - Georg Simmel

Question 21

Moral anarchy…

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Is the danger we currently face - Amitai Etzioni

Question 22

Happiness is reached when

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A person is ready to be where he is - Desiderius Erasmus

Question 23

All a man can betray

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Is his conscience - Joseph Conrad

Question 24

[patriotism] … is intimately connected with

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The citizens sense of identity - A.C. Grayling

Question 25

To love a thing

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Means wanting it to live - Confucius

Question 26

Happiness depends

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On wisdom - Sophocles

Question 27

In a liquid modern life,

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There are no permanent bonds - Zygmunt Bauman