Even if one cannot summarize the history of philosophy only with quotes and quotations, some philosophy quotes are must-known !
Here is our selection of the best philosophy quotes grabbed from most known philosophers and thinkers (Socrates, Descartes, Kant, …), in our humble opinion:
Famous philosophy quotes:
Descartes: “I think, therefore i am”
Socrates: “Know yourself”
Kant: “Learn to philosophize, not philosophy”
Kant: “What do I know? – What should I do? – What am I allowed to hope?”
Nietzsche: “Become what you are”
Nietzsche: “God is dead”
Plato: “This is the true mark of a philosopher that the sense of wonder”
Aristotle: “Man is a political animal”
Aristotle: “Happiness is an end in itself”
Voltaire: “If God did not exist it would have to invent”
Kierkegaard: “Life is not a problem to solve but a reality that must be experienced”
Spinoza: “Man is not an empire within an empire”
Locke: “The knowledge of man can not extend beyond his own experience”
Marx: “Philosophers have only interpreted the world, we have now to transform it”
Hobbes: “Man is a wolf to man”
Epicurus: “Death is nothing to us”
Machiavelli: “The Fortune is a woman. You have to fight it to dominate”
Hume: “The ego is a fictional idea”
Hegel: “Nothing great has become great in the world without passion”
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