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12 Philosopher's Quotes

Who said these famous quotes? Only last names required.
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Last updated: May 20, 2013
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"The only thing I know is that I know nothing"
Socrates
"I think, therefore I am"
Descartes
"God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him"
Nietzsche
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
Aristotle
"Man is condemned to be free"
Sartre
"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster"
Hume
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"It is beyond a doubt that our knowledge begins with experience"
Kant
"Religion is the opium of the masses"
Marx
"It is impossible to love and to be wise"
Bacon
"All great authors are seers"
Lewes
"All wealth is the product of labour"
Locke
"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see"
Berkeley
Baltimorean
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May 20, 2013
I have to confess--I only knew the fourth one because Shaquille O'Neal repeated it. Before dubbing himself "the Big Aristotle," of course. As for the second one, there is a nice Saul Steinberg cartoon of a possum with a thought balloon over its head that reads "Cogito ergo possum."
BobSaget
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May 21, 2013
It's spelled Nietzsche.
ogamer
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Jan 11, 2015
You should consider to change Nietzche for Nietzsche ;)
Fishes
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Mar 8, 2022
The Aristotle quote is actually from historian Will Durant in a chapter about Aristotle. It's a summary, not a quote.
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