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Quote	Philosopher	% Correct
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing”	Socrates (470 – 399 BC)	79%
"I think, therefore I am"	René Descartes (1596 – 1650)	75%
“God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.”	Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)	67%
“Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people”	Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)	63%
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world	Plato (ca. 425 – 348 BC)	63%
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet".	Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)	46%
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.	Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)	46%
“One cannot step twice in the same river”	Heraclitus (ca. 540 – ca. 480 BC)	42%
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"	Laozi (ca. 604 – 531 BC)	42%
"One ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved"	Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)	42%
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."	Augustine of Hippo (350-430)	25%
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated"	Confucius (551 – 479 BC)	21%
“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”	George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)	21%
“We live in the best of all possible worlds”	Gottfried Leibniz (1646 – 1716)	21%
Death is not important. As long we are here, there is no death. And when death is there, we will not be here anymore.	Epicure (341–270 BC)	17%
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”	David Hume (1711 – 1776)	8%
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.	Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536)	8%
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ”	Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)	8%
"It takes two men to fight"	Seneca the Younger (ca. 4 BC – 65 AD)	4%
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”	Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274)	4%