Quotes

Question 1

Simon Blackburn (Life)

Answer 1

A lot of life is indeed a matter of raising more hogs to buy more land to raise more hogs to buy more land

Question 2

Simon Blackburn (Ideas)

Answer 2

The world is full of ideas and a becoming sense of their power, their difficulty, their frailties and their fallibility cannot be the least thing it needs

Question 3

Andrew Wiles

Answer 3

That particular Odyssey is over. My mind is at rest

Question 4

G.H Hardy (Maths)

Answer 4

Immortality is a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance at it

Question 5

G.H Hardy (Majority)

Answer 5

It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that

Question 6

Niebuhr

Answer 6

Every time I find the meaning of life they change it

Question 7

William James

Answer 7

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will

Question 8

Daniel Klein (Existence Precedes Essence)

Answer 8

The idea that life’s meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself feels right to me. In fact, it seems absolutely essential.

Question 9

Nietzsche

Answer 9

The secret of the great fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerously

Question 10

Jean Paul Sartre (Ennui)

Answer 10

Nothing happens while you live, the scenery changes, people come in and go out that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days tacked onto day without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

Question 11

David Hume

Answer 11

The life of a an is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster

Question 12

Samuel Beckett

Answer 12

ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist.
VLADIMIR: Yes, yes we’re magicians

Question 13

John Stewart Mill

Answer 13

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction

Question 14

Seneca the Younger

Answer 14

Even while they teach, men learn

Question 15

Aristotle

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Lewis Carol, Alice

Answer 16

Why sometimes I’ve believed s six impossible things before breakfast

Question 17

Jean Paul Sartre (Freedom)

Answer 17

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does

Question 18

Jean Paul Sartre (Loneliness)

Answer 18

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company

Question 19

Peter Singer

Answer 19

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally to do it.

Question 20

Bertrand Russell

Answer 20

The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense

Question 21

Karl Marx

Answer 21

Philosophers seek to understand the world, whereas the point was to change it.

Question 22

Jean Paul Sartre (Signs)

Answer 22

For the decipherment of the sign, however, he bears the entire responsibility

Question 23

Pascal

Answer 23

Why here rather than there, why now rather than then

Question 24

Pythagoras (Freedom)

Answer 24

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself

Question 25

Pythagoras (Words)

Answer 25

The oldest, shortest words — “yes” and “no” — are those which require the most thought

Question 26

Pythagoras (Music)

Answer 26

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres