QUOTES FROM THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHERS OF ALL TIME

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

'The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.'

David Hume (1711-1776)

'Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)  

'I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.'  

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

'The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.' 

Plato (427-347 BC)

'Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.'

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

'Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.'

Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

'The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs.'

Socrates (469-399 BC)

'The unexamined life is not worth living.'

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

'I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.'

Karl Popper (1902-94)

'Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship.'

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

'I think, therefore I am.'

Epicurus (c. 341 BC–270 BC) 

'It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly.'

Martin Heidegger (1889 –1976) 

'Why are there beings at all, instead of nothing?'

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) 

'[In] this war of every man against every man; nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.'

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55)  

"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.'

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

'Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.'

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

'Man is a rational animal - so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it.'

  

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

'My thought is me: that is why I can't stop. I exist by what I think...and I can't prevent myself from thinking.'

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)

'All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.'

  

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

'Ignorance is no argument.'