The Concept of the Human Person. Flashcards
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
Socrates
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”
Thomas Hobbes
“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors”
Martin Heidegger
“The truth is up there”
Plato
“The truth is here”
Aristotle
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”
Immanuel Kant
“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience”
John Locke
“I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum).
René Descartes
“The root of evil is ignorance”
Plato
“One cannot step twice in the same river”
Heraclitus
“There is only one good; knowledge, and one evil; ignorance”
Socrates
“I not only have a body; I am this body”
Gabriel Marcel
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”
Bertrand Russell
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”
Aristotle
“You can discover more of a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”
Plato
“Anxiety and despair are essential to the human experience”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The only thing I know is I know nothing”
Socrates
“Nothing is permanent except change
Heraclitus
“He who is unable to live in a society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god
Aristotle
“The truly brave man is one who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures”
Democritus
“Perception is not a state of mind but an organism’s entire bodily relation to its environment”
Maurice Merleau
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you do not know”
Bertrand Russell
“Genuine happiness is never a lifetime”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Our character defines who we are”
Aristotle
“That man is the wisest who, like Socrates, realizes his wisdom is worthless”
Plato
“Human beings are, by nature, greedy and selfish”
Thomas Hobbes
The kind of problems we create in a society reflects much on how we cannot handle the insatiable desires or needs that we have”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Self-realization is not accomplished by an act of thinking alone”
Erich Fromm
“Man is condemned to be free”
Jean-Paul Sartre
