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Who said
The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao
A
Laozi
1
Q
Who said
Everything is made of water
A
Thales of Miletus
2
Q
Who said
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas
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Pythagoras
3
Q
Who said
Happy is he who has overcome his
Ego
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Shiddhartha Gautama
4
Q
Who said
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles
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Confucius
5
Q
Who said
Everything is in a state of flux
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Heraclitus
6
Q
Who said
All is one
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Parmenides
7
Q
Who said
Man is the measure of all things
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Protagoras
8
Q
Who said
When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum
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Mozi
9
Q
Who said
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space
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Democritus and Leucippus
10
Q
Who said
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
A
Socrates
11
Q
Who said
Earthly knowledge is but shadow
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Plato
12
Q
Who said
Truth resides in the world around us
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Aristotle
13
Q
Who said
Death is nothing to us
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Epicuris
14
Q
Who said
He has the most who is most content with the least
A
Diogenes of Sinope
15
Q
Who said
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature
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Zeno of Citium
16
Q
God is not the parent of evils
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St. Augustine of Hippo
17
Q
God foresees our free thoughts and actions
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Boethius
18
Q
The soul is distinct from the body
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Avicenna
19
Q
Just by thinking about thinking about God we can know that he exists
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St. Anselm
20
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Philosophy and religion are not incompatible
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Averroes
21
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God has no attributres
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Moses Maimonides
22
Q
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form
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Jal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
23
Q
The universe has not always existed
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Thomas Aquinas
24
God is the not-other
Nikolaus von Kues
25
To know nothing is the happiest life
Desiderius Erasmus
26
The ends justifies the means
Niccolo Machiavelli
27
Fame and tranquillity can never be bedfellows
Michel de Montaigne
28
Knowledge is power
Francis Bacon
29
Man is a machine
Thomas Hobbes
30
I think therefore I am
Rene Decartes
31
Imagination decides everything
Blaise Pascal
32
God is the of all things that are in him
Benedictus Spinoza
33
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience
John Locke
34
There are two kinds of truths; truths of reasonings and truths of fact
Gottfried Leibniz
35
To be is to be perceived
George Berkeley
36
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainly absurd
Voltaire
37
Custom is the great guide of human life
David Hume
38
Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
39
Man is an animal that makes bargains
Adam Smith
40
There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world
Immanuel Kant
41
Society is indeed a contract
Edmund Burke
42
The greatest happiness is the greatest number
Jeremy Bentham
43
Mind has no gender
Mary Wollstonecraft
44
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
45
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
46
Reality is a historical process
Georg Hegel
47
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world
Arthur Schopenhauer
48
Theology is Anthropology
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
49
Over his body and mind, the individual is sovereign
John Stuart Mill
50
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
Soren Kierkegaard
51
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles
Karl Marx
52
Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator?
Henry David Thoreau
53
Consider what effects things have
Charles Sanders Peirce
54
Act as if what you do makes a difference
William James
55
Man is something to be surpassed
Fredrick Nietzsche
56
Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer
Ahan Ha'am
57
Every message is made of signs
Ferdinand de Saussure
58
Experience by itself is not science
Edmund Husserl
59
Intuition goes in the very direction of life
Henri Bergson
60
We only think when we are confronted with problems
John Dewey
61
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
George Santayana
62
It is only suffering that makes us persons
Miguel de Umamino
63
Believe in life
William du Bois
64
The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work
Bertrand Russell
65
Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge
Max Scheler
66
Only as an individual can a man become a philosopher
Karl Jaspers
67
Life is a series of collisions with the future
Jose Ortega y Gasset
68
To philosophize, first one must confess
Hajime Tanabe
69
The limits of my language are the limits of my world
Ludwig Wittgenstein
70
We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed
Martin Heidegger
71
Individuals only true moral choice is through self sacrifice for the community
Tetsuro Watsuji
72
Logic is the last scientific ingredient
| of philosophy
Rudolf Carnap
73
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope
Walter Benjamin
74
That which is cannot be true
Herbert Marcuse
75
History does not belong to us but we belong to it
Has-Georg Gadamer
76
In so far as scientific statement speaks about reality it must be falsifiable
Karl Popper
77
Intelligence is a moral category
Theodor Adorno
78
Existence precedes essence
John Paul Sartre
79
The banality of evil
Hannah Arendt
80
Reason lives in language
Emmanuel Levinas
81
In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
82
Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female
Simone de Beauvoir
83
Language is a social art
Willard Van Orman Quine
84
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains
Isaiah Berlin
85
Think like a mountain
Arne Naess
86
Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
Albert Camus
87
Language is a skin
Roland Barthes
88
How would we manage without a culture
Mary Midgely
89
Normal science does not aimed at novelties a fact or theory
Thomas Kuhn
90
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance
John Rawls
91
Art is a form of life
Richard Wollheim
92
Anything goes
Paul Feyerabend
93
Knowledge is produced to be sold
Jean-Francois Lyotard
94
For the black man there is only one destiny and it is white
Frantz Fanon
95
Man is an invention of recent date
Michel Foucault
96
If we choose we can live in a world of comforting illusion
Norm Chomsky
97
Society is dependent upon criticism of its own traditions
Jurgen Habermas
98
There is nothing outside of the text
Jacques Derrida
99
There is nothing deep down inside of us except what we have put there ourselves
Richard Rorty
100
Every desire has a relation to madness
Luce Irigaray
101
Every Empire tells itself and the world that is unlike all the other empires
Edward Said
102
Thought has always worked by opposition
Helene Cixous
103
Who plays God in present-day feminism
Julia Kristeva
104
Philosophy is not only a written enterprise
Henry Odera Oruka
105
In suffering the animals are our equals
Peter Singer
106
All the best Marxist analysis are always analysis of a failure
Slavoj Zizek
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