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Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire"
Confucius, Philosopher
Confucius
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"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Albert Camus
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"We are all special cases"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Albert Camus
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Albert Camus
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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Albert Camus
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"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Albert Camus
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"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
Francis Bacon
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"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
Francis Bacon
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"Man is condemned to be free, because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Hell is other people"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Karl Marx
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"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Karl Marx
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"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Karl Marx
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"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Karl Marx
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"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Karl Marx
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
Blaise Pascal
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"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
Blaise Pascal
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"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else"
Epictetus, Philosopher
Epictetus
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"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude"
William James, Philosopher
William James
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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook"
William James, Philosopher
William James
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task"
William James, Philosopher
William James
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