Quotes Flashcards
I cannot fiddle, but I can make a small town into a great state
Themistocles 514
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts
Soren kierkeguard
Love is all, it gives all and it takes all
Soren Kierkegaard
Be that self which one truly is
Soren Kierkegaard
Don’t forget to live yourself
Soren Kierkegaard
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are
Soren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use
Soren Kierkegaard
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced
Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards
Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays
Soren Kierkegaard
The unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there wasbsomerhing not quite fair with it
Thucydides
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continually going on
Thucydides
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men
Thucydides
Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily
William of Okham
The life of a man (In a star of nature) is solitary, nasty, brutish and short
Thomas Hobbes
Cogito, ergo sum
René Descartes
He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors
Martin Heidegger
We live in the best of all possible worlds
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational
G w f Hegel
God is dead! He remains dead! And We have killed him
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is but one truly philosophical question and that is suicide
Albert Camus
One cannot step twice in the same river
Heraclites
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
Jeremy Benth
To be is to be perceived
Bishop George Berkeley
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination
Immanuel Kant
No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience
John Locke
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
Niccolo Machiavelli
Liberty consists of doing what one desires
John Stuart Mill
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no groundwhatever for supposing it to be true
Bertrand Russell
Even while they teach, men learn
Seneca The Younger
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance
Socrates
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him
Voltaire
This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn nor to be frightened by absurdities
Bertrand Russell
One cannot conceive anything so strange and implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another
Renè Descartes
Leisure is the mother of philosophy
Thomas Hobbes
Philosophy is the battle against the bewilderment of our intelligence by means of language
Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers
William James
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit
Aristotle
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me
G W F hegel
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
John Locke
Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forward
Soren Kierkegaard
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know
Bertrand Russell
Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?
Friedrich Nietzsche
I would never down for my beliefs because I might be wrong
Bertrand Russell
Religion is the sign of the oppressed…it is the opium of the people
Karl Marx
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it
Epicurus
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
G w f Hegel
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we make make ourselves worthy of happiness
Immanuel Kant
Man is condemned to be free
Jean Paul Sartre
I dont know whybwebare here but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves
Ludwig Wittgenstein
That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that hisbwisdom is worthless
Plato
The only thing I know is that I know nothing
Socrates
3 o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do
Jean Paul Sartre
If you are lonely when you are alone then you are in bad company
Jean Paul Sartre
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat
Jean Paul Sartre
There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away at dusk
Jean Paul Sartre
We do not judge the people we love
Jean Paul Sartre
Hell is - other people!
Jean Paul Sartre
Tjere may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours
Jean Paul Sartre
Words are loaded pistols
Jean Paul Sartre
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live or what we are
Jean Paul Sartre
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible
Ezra Pound
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Kafka
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtue
Kafka
In the fight between you and the world, back the world
Kafka
