Philospher Quotes Flashcards
Who said
The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao
Laozi
Who said
Everything is made of water
Thales of Miletus
Who said
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas
Pythagoras
Who said
Happy is he who has overcome his
Ego
Shiddhartha Gautama
Who said
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles
Confucius
Who said
Everything is in a state of flux
Heraclitus
Who said
All is one
Parmenides
Who said
Man is the measure of all things
Protagoras
Who said
When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum
Mozi
Who said
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space
Democritus and Leucippus
Who said
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Socrates
Who said
Earthly knowledge is but shadow
Plato
Who said
Truth resides in the world around us
Aristotle
Who said
Death is nothing to us
Epicuris
Who said
He has the most who is most content with the least
Diogenes of Sinope
Who said
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature
Zeno of Citium
God is not the parent of evils
St. Augustine of Hippo
God foresees our free thoughts and actions
Boethius
The soul is distinct from the body
Avicenna
Just by thinking about thinking about God we can know that he exists
St. Anselm
Philosophy and religion are not incompatible
Averroes
God has no attributres
Moses Maimonides
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form
Jal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
The universe has not always existed
Thomas Aquinas
God is the not-other
Nikolaus von Kues
To know nothing is the happiest life
Desiderius Erasmus
The ends justifies the means
Niccolo Machiavelli
Fame and tranquillity can never be bedfellows
Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge is power
Francis Bacon
Man is a machine
Thomas Hobbes
I think therefore I am
Rene Decartes
Imagination decides everything
Blaise Pascal
God is the of all things that are in him
Benedictus Spinoza
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience
John Locke
There are two kinds of truths; truths of reasonings and truths of fact
Gottfried Leibniz
To be is to be perceived
George Berkeley
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainly absurd
Voltaire
Custom is the great guide of human life
David Hume
Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is an animal that makes bargains
Adam Smith
There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world
Immanuel Kant
Society is indeed a contract
Edmund Burke