Statistics for Philosophers Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
I think; therefore I am	René Descartes	90%
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law	Immanuel Kant	56%
In the State of Nature profit is the measure of right	Thomas Hobbes	40%
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	39%
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property	John Locke	34%
Therefore, there must be a first mover existing above all — and this we call God	Thomas Aquinas	33%
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce	Karl Marx	32%
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time	Friedrich Nietzsche	31%
God is the Immanent Cause of all things, never truly transcendent from them	Baruch Spinoza	21%
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me	Georg W. F. Hegel	18%
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought	John Rawls	17%
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?	Martin Heidegger	12%
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain	Niccolò Machiavelli	9%
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor	Robert Nozick	9%
I declare justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger	Thrasymachus	8%
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images	Guy Debord	7%
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence	Avicenna	3%
It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again	Parmenides	3%