Quotes Flashcards

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I cannot fiddle, but I can make a small town into a great state

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Themistocles 514

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts

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Soren kierkeguard

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Love is all, it gives all and it takes all

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Soren Kierkegaard

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4
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Be that self which one truly is

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Soren Kierkegaard

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5
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Don’t forget to live yourself

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are

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Soren Kierkegaard

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use

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Soren Kierkegaard

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays

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Soren Kierkegaard

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12
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The unexamined life is not worth living

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Socrates

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13
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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14
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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

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Thucydides

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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continually going on

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Thucydides

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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men

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Thucydides

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17
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Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily

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William of Okham

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18
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The life of a man (In a star of nature) is solitary, nasty, brutish and short

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Thomas Hobbes

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Cogito, ergo sum

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René Descartes

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20
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He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors

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Martin Heidegger

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21
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We live in the best of all possible worlds

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational

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G w f Hegel

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23
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God is dead! He remains dead! And We have killed him

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is but one truly philosophical question and that is suicide

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Albert Camus

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One cannot step twice in the same river
Heraclites
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
Jeremy Benth
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To be is to be perceived
Bishop George Berkeley
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination
Immanuel Kant
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No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience
John Locke
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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
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Liberty consists of doing what one desires
John Stuart Mill
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no groundwhatever for supposing it to be true
Bertrand Russell
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Even while they teach, men learn
Seneca The Younger
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance
Socrates
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If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him
Voltaire
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This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn nor to be frightened by absurdities
Bertrand Russell
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another
Renè Descartes
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy
Thomas Hobbes
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Philosophy is the battle against the bewilderment of our intelligence by means of language
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers
William James
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit
Aristotle
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
G W F hegel
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
John Locke
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Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forward
Soren Kierkegaard
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Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know
Bertrand Russell
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would never down for my beliefs because I might be wrong
Bertrand Russell
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Religion is the sign of the oppressed...it is the opium of the people
Karl Marx
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it
Epicurus
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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable
G w f Hegel
51
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we make make ourselves worthy of happiness
Immanuel Kant
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Man is condemned to be free
Jean Paul Sartre
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I dont know whybwebare here but I'm pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that hisbwisdom is worthless
Plato
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The only thing I know is that I know nothing
Socrates
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3 o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do
Jean Paul Sartre
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If you are lonely when you are alone then you are in bad company
Jean Paul Sartre
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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat
Jean Paul Sartre
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There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away at dusk
Jean Paul Sartre
60
We do not judge the people we love
Jean Paul Sartre
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Hell is - other people!
Jean Paul Sartre
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Tjere may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours
Jean Paul Sartre
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Words are loaded pistols
Jean Paul Sartre
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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
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible
Ezra Pound
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old
Kafka
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtue
Kafka
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world
Kafka