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Who said

The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao

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Laozi

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Who said

Everything is made of water

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Thales of Miletus

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Who said

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas

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Pythagoras

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Who said
Happy is he who has overcome his
Ego

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Shiddhartha Gautama

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Who said

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles

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Confucius

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Who said

Everything is in a state of flux

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Heraclitus

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Who said

All is one

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Parmenides

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Who said

Man is the measure of all things

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Protagoras

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Who said

When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum

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Mozi

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Who said

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space

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Democritus and Leucippus

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Who said

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

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Socrates

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Who said

Earthly knowledge is but shadow

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Plato

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Who said

Truth resides in the world around us

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Aristotle

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Who said

Death is nothing to us

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Epicuris

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Who said

He has the most who is most content with the least

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Diogenes of Sinope

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Who said

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature

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Zeno of Citium

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God is not the parent of evils

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St. Augustine of Hippo

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17
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God foresees our free thoughts and actions

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Boethius

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18
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The soul is distinct from the body

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Avicenna

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19
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Just by thinking about thinking about God we can know that he exists

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St. Anselm

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20
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Philosophy and religion are not incompatible

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Averroes

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21
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God has no attributres

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Moses Maimonides

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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form

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Jal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

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The universe has not always existed

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Thomas Aquinas

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God is the not-other

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Nikolaus von Kues

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25
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To know nothing is the happiest life

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Desiderius Erasmus

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The ends justifies the means

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Fame and tranquillity can never be bedfellows

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Michel de Montaigne

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28
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Knowledge is power

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Francis Bacon

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29
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Man is a machine

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Thomas Hobbes

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30
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I think therefore I am

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Rene Decartes

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31
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Imagination decides everything

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Blaise Pascal

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32
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God is the of all things that are in him

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Benedictus Spinoza

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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience

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John Locke

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There are two kinds of truths; truths of reasonings and truths of fact

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Gottfried Leibniz

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35
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To be is to be perceived

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George Berkeley

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36
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainly absurd

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Voltaire

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37
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Custom is the great guide of human life

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David Hume

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38
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Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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39
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Man is an animal that makes bargains

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Adam Smith

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40
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There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world

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Immanuel Kant

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41
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Society is indeed a contract

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Edmund Burke

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42
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The greatest happiness is the greatest number

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Jeremy Bentham

43
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Mind has no gender

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Mary Wollstonecraft

44
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

46
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Reality is a historical process

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Georg Hegel

47
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world

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Arthur Schopenhauer

48
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Theology is Anthropology

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

49
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Over his body and mind, the individual is sovereign

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John Stuart Mill

50
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom

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Soren Kierkegaard

51
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles

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Karl Marx

52
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Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator?

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Henry David Thoreau

53
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Consider what effects things have

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Charles Sanders Peirce

54
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Act as if what you do makes a difference

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William James

55
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Man is something to be surpassed

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Fredrick Nietzsche

56
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Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer

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Ahan Ha’am

57
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Every message is made of signs

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Ferdinand de Saussure

58
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Experience by itself is not science

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Edmund Husserl

59
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Intuition goes in the very direction of life

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Henri Bergson

60
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We only think when we are confronted with problems

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John Dewey

61
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

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George Santayana

62
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It is only suffering that makes us persons

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Miguel de Umamino

63
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Believe in life

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William du Bois

64
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The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work

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Bertrand Russell

65
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Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge

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Max Scheler

66
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Only as an individual can a man become a philosopher

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Karl Jaspers

67
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Life is a series of collisions with the future

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Jose Ortega y Gasset

68
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To philosophize, first one must confess

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Hajime Tanabe

69
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The limits of my language are the limits of my world

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

70
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We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed

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Martin Heidegger

71
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Individuals only true moral choice is through self sacrifice for the community

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Tetsuro Watsuji

72
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Logic is the last scientific ingredient

of philosophy

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Rudolf Carnap

73
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope

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Walter Benjamin

74
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That which is cannot be true

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Herbert Marcuse

75
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History does not belong to us but we belong to it

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Has-Georg Gadamer

76
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In so far as scientific statement speaks about reality it must be falsifiable

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Karl Popper

77
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Intelligence is a moral category

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Theodor Adorno

78
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Existence precedes essence

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John Paul Sartre

79
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The banality of evil

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Hannah Arendt

80
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Reason lives in language

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Emmanuel Levinas

81
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In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

82
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Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female

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Simone de Beauvoir

83
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Language is a social art

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Willard Van Orman Quine

84
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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains

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Isaiah Berlin

85
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Think like a mountain

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Arne Naess

86
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Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

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Albert Camus

87
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Language is a skin

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Roland Barthes

88
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How would we manage without a culture

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Mary Midgely

89
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Normal science does not aimed at novelties a fact or theory

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Thomas Kuhn

90
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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance

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John Rawls

91
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Art is a form of life

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Richard Wollheim

92
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Anything goes

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Paul Feyerabend

93
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Knowledge is produced to be sold

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Jean-Francois Lyotard

94
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For the black man there is only one destiny and it is white

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Frantz Fanon

95
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Man is an invention of recent date

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Michel Foucault

96
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If we choose we can live in a world of comforting illusion

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Norm Chomsky

97
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Society is dependent upon criticism of its own traditions

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Jurgen Habermas

98
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There is nothing outside of the text

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Jacques Derrida

99
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There is nothing deep down inside of us except what we have put there ourselves

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Richard Rorty

100
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Every desire has a relation to madness

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Luce Irigaray

101
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Every Empire tells itself and the world that is unlike all the other empires

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Edward Said

102
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Thought has always worked by opposition

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Helene Cixous

103
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Who plays God in present-day feminism

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Julia Kristeva

104
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Philosophy is not only a written enterprise

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Henry Odera Oruka

105
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In suffering the animals are our equals

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Peter Singer

106
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All the best Marxist analysis are always analysis of a failure

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Slavoj Zizek

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