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1. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren
Kierkegaard
2. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch
3. Even while they teach, men learn. – Seneca the Younger
4. The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding,
because to understand is to be free. -Baruch Spinoza
5. Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. -Lao Tsu
6. We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change

our thinking. -Santosh Kalwar
7. Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change
and spiritual rebirth. -Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
8. Superstitions set the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. -Voltaire
9. Skepticism is the first step towards truth. -Denis Diderot
10. The beginning of thought is in disagreement, not only with others but also with
ourselves. -Eric Hoffer
11. Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true widsdom. -Laozi
12. Reason is immortal, all else mortal. -Pythagoras
13. The mind is everything. What you think, you become. -Siddhartha Gautama
14. Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the
brevity of human life. -Protagoras
15. Man is a microcosm of the universe. -Democritus
16. What we call learning is only a process of recollection. -Plato
17. He has the most who is most content with the least. -Diogenes of Sinope
18. Everything is known, not according to itself, but according to the capacity of
the knower. -Boethius
19. When the intellects contemplate god's essence, their apprehension turns into
incapacity. -Maimonides
20. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form. -Rumi
21. Happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. -Desiderius

Erasmus
22. The end justifies the means. -Niccolo Machiavelli
23. By far the best proof is experience.- Francis Bacon
24. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -Voltaire
25. Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains. -Jeans Jacques Rousseau
26. Man is an animal that makes bargains. -Adam Smith
27. Human reason is troubled by questions it cannot dismiss, but also cannot
amswer. -Immanuel Kant
28. Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man. -Mary
Wollstonecraft
29. To comprehend what is the task of philosophy, for what is, is reason. -Georg
Hegel
30. Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. -John Stuart Mill
31. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required
for real happiness. -Karl Marx
32. Act as if what you do makes a difference. -William James
33. Experience by itself is not science. -Edmund Husserl
34. We only think when we are confronted with problems. -John Dewey
35. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George
Santayana
36. It is only suffering that makes us makes us persons. -Miguel De Unamuno
37. Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge. -Max Scheler
38. Life is a series of collisions with the future. -Jose Ortega Y Gasset
39. To philosophize, first one must confess. -Hajime Tanabe
40. The limits of my language are the limits of my world. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
41. The individual's only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the
community. -Tetsuro Watsuji
42. Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy. -Rudolf Carnap
43. The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. -Walter Benjamin
44. History does not belong to us, but we belong to it. -Hans-Georg Gadamer
45. Every solution to a problem creates new unsolved problems. -Karl Popper
46. The power of judgement is measured by the cohesion of self. -Theodor Adorno
47. In order to see the world, we must break with our familiar acceptance of it. -
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
48. Man is defined as a human being, and woman as a female. -Simone De Beauvoir
49. The thinking for the future has to be loyal to nature. -Arne Naess
50. Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning. -Albert Camus
51. We mistakenly cut ourselves off from other animals, trying not to believe we
have an animal nature. -Mary Midgley
52. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. -John Rawls
53. Knowledge is produced to be sold. -Jean-Francois Lyotard
54. Man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for
human knowledge. -Michel Foucault
55. If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. -Noam Chomsky
56. Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions. -Jurgen Habermas
57. There's nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. -
Richard Rorty
58. Thought has always worked by opposition. -Helene Cixous
59. In suffering, the animals are our equals. -Peter Singer
60. All the best marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. -Slavoj Zizek

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1. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

2. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch

3. Even while they teach, men learn. – Seneca the Younger

6. We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change

9. Skepticism is the first step towards truth. -Denis Diderot

11. Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true widsdom. -Laozi

12. Reason is immortal, all else mortal. -Pythagoras

15. Man is a microcosm of the universe. -Democritus

16. What we call learning is only a process of recollection. -Plato

21. Happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. -Desiderius

22. The end justifies the means. -Niccolo Machiavelli

23. By far the best proof is experience.- Francis Bacon

24. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -Voltaire

32. Act as if what you do makes a difference. -William James

33. Experience by itself is not science. -Edmund Husserl

36. It is only suffering that makes us makes us persons. -Miguel De Unamuno

37. Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge. -Max Scheler

39. To philosophize, first one must confess. -Hajime Tanabe

42. Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy. -Rudolf Carnap

53. Knowledge is produced to be sold. -Jean-Francois Lyotard

55. If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. -Noam Chomsky

58. Thought has always worked by opposition. -Helene Cixous

59. In suffering, the animals are our equals. -Peter Singer

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