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quotes[0]='“The unexamined life is not worth living” – <A HREF="philosophers_socrates.html">Socrates</A>'

quotes[1]='“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” – <A HREF="philosophers_ockham.html">William of Ockham</A>'

quotes[2]='“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” – <A HREF="philosophers_hobbes.html">Thomas Hobbes</A>'

quotes[3]='“I think, therefore I am” (“Cogito, ergo sum”) – <A HREF="philosophers_descartes.html">René Descartes</A>'

quotes[4]='“To be is to be perceived” (“Esse est percipi”)– <A HREF="philosophers_berkeley">Bishop George Berkeley</A>'

quotes[5]='“We live in the best of all possible worlds” – <A HREF="philosophers_leibniz.html">Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz</A>'

quotes[6]='“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational” – <A HREF="philosophers_hegel.html">G. W. F. Hegel</A>'

quotes[7]='“God is dead” – <A HREF="philosophers_nietzsche.html">Friedrich Nietzsche</A>'

quotes[8]='“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” – <i>Albert Camus</i>'

quotes[9]='“One cannot step twice in the same river” – <A HREF="philosophers_heraclitus.html">Heraclitus</A>' 

quotes[10]='“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation” – <A HREF="philosophers_bentham.html">Jeremy Bentham</A>'

quotes[11]='“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination” – <A HREF="philosophers_kant.html">Immanuel Kant</A>'

quotes[12]='“No man\'s knowledge here can go beyond his experience” – <A HREF="philosophers_locke.html">John Locke</A>'

quotes[13]='“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us” – <A HREF="philosophers_machiavelli.html">Niccolo Machiavelli</A>'

quotes[14]='“Liberty consists in doing what one desires” – <A HREF="philosophers_mill.html">John Stuart Mill</A>'

quotes[15]='“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true” – <A HREF="philosophers_russell.html">Bertrand Russell</A>'

quotes[16]='“Even while they teach, men learn” – <i>Seneca the Younger</i>'

quotes[17]='“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” – <A HREF="philosophers_socrates.html">Socrates</A>'

quotes[18]='“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him” – <A HREF="philosophers_voltaire.html">Voltaire</A>'

quotes[19]='“Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities” – <A HREF="philosophers_russell.html">Bertrand Russell</A>'

quotes[20]='“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another” – <A HREF="philosophers_descartes.html">René Descartes</A>'

quotes[21]='“Leisure is the mother of philosophy” – <A HREF="philosophers_hobbes.html">Thomas Hobbes</A>'

quotes[22]='“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language” – <A HREF="philosophers_wittgenstein.html">Ludwig Wittgenstein</A>'

quotes[23]='“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers” – <A HREF="philosophers_james.html">William James</A>'

quotes[24]='“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” – <A HREF="philosophers_aristotle.html">Aristotle</A>'

quotes[25]='“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ” – <A HREF="philosophers_kierkegaard.html">Søren Kierkegaard</A>'

quotes[26]='“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don\'t know” – <A HREF="philosophers_russell.html">Bertrand Russell</A>'

quotes[27]='“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck” – <A HREF="philosophers_kant.html">Immanuel Kant</A>'

quotes[28]='“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits” – <A HREF="philosophers_james.html">William James</A>'

quotes[29]='“History is Philosophy teaching by examples” – <i>Thucydides</i>'

quotes[30]='“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god” – <A HREF="philosophers_aristotle.html">Aristotle</A>'

quotes[31]='“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation” – <A HREF="philosophers_plato.html">Plato</A>'

quotes[32]='“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly” – <A HREF="philosophers_bacon_francis.html">Francis Bacon</A>'

quotes[33]='“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” – mistakenly attributed to <A HREF="philosophers_burke.html">Edmund Burke</A>'

quotes[34]='“Is man merely a mistake of God\'s? Or God merely a mistake of man\'s?” – <A HREF="philosophers_nietzsche.html">Friedrich Nietzsche</A>'

quotes[35]='“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong” – <A HREF="philosophers_russell.html">Bertrand Russell</A>'

quotes[36]='“Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people” – <A HREF="philosophers_marx.html">Karl Marx</A>'

quotes[37]='“Happiness is the highest good” – <A HREF="philosophers_aristotle.html">Aristotle</A>'

quotes[38]='“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil” – <A HREF="philosophers_spinoza.html">Baruch Spinoza</A>'

quotes[39]='“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it” – <A HREF="philosophers_epicurus.html">Epicurus</A>'

quotes[40]='“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable” – <A HREF="philosophers_hegel.html">G. W. F. Hegel</A>'

quotes[41]='“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn\’t understand me” – <A HREF="philosophers_hegel.html">G. W. F. Hegel</A>'

quotes[42]='“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness” – <A HREF="philosophers_kant.html">Immanuel Kant</A>'

quotes[43]='“Man is condemned to be free” – <A HREF="philosophers_sartre.html">Jean-Paul Sartre</A>'

quotes[44]='“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to out him in possession of truth” – <A HREF="philosophers_locke.html">John Locke</A>'

quotes[45]='“I don\’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves” – <A HREF="philosophers_wittgenstein.html">Ludwig Wittgenstein</A>'

quotes[46]='“That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless” – <A HREF="philosophers_plato.html">Plato</A>'

quotes[47]='“The only thing I know is that I know nothing” – <A HREF="philosophers_socrates.html">Socrates</A>'

quotes[48]='“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” – <A HREF="philosophers_voltaire.html">Voltaire</A> (in parody of <A HREF="philosophers_leibniz.html">Leibniz</A>)</i>'

quotes[49]='“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the on who prays” – <A HREF="philosophers_kierkegaard.html">Søren Kierkegaard</A>'

quotes[50]='“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains” – <A HREF="philosophers_rousseau.html">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</A>'

quotes[51]='“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” – <i>Denis Diderot</i>'

quotes[52]='“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things” – <A HREF="philosophers_descartes.html">René Descartes</A>'

quotes[53]='“Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative” – <A HREF="philosophers_aristotle.html">Aristotle</A>'
 
quotes[54]='“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature” – <A HREF="philosophers_spinoza.html">Baruch Spinoza</A>'

quotes[55]='“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it” – <A HREF="philosophers_marx.html">Karl Marx</A>'

quotes[56]='“It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence” – <i>W. K. Clifford</i>'

quotes[57]='“Virtue is nothing else than right reason” – <i>Seneca the Younger</i>'

quotes[58]='“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one\'s desires, but by the removal of desire” – <A HREF="philosophers_epictetus.html">Epictetus</A>'

quotes[59]='“In everything, there is a share of everything” – <A HREF="philosophers_anaxagoras.html">Anaxagoras</A>'

quotes[60]='“A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion” – <A HREF="philosophers_bacon_francis.html">Sir Francis Bacon</A>'

quotes[61]='“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” – <A HREF="philosophers_democritus.html">Democritus</A>'

quotes[62]='“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature” – <A HREF="philosophers_locke.html">John Locke</A>'

quotes[63]='“To do as one would be done by, and to love one\'s neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality” – <A HREF="philosophers_mill.html">John Stuart Mill</A>'

quotes[64]='“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident” – <A HREF="philosophers_sartre.html">Jean-Paul Sartre</A>'

quotes[65]='“Man is the measure of all things” – <A HREF="philosophers_protagoras.html">Protagoras</A>'

quotes[66]='“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone” – <A HREF="philosophers_augustine.html">St. Augustine</A>'

quotes[67]='“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” – <A HREF="philosophers_locke.html">John Locke</A>'

quotes[68]='“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – <A HREF="philosophers_wittgenstein.html">Ludwig Wittgenstein</A>'

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