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