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20 Philosophers

The document provides quotes from famous philosophers on a variety of topics: - Aristotle stated "Teaching is the highest form of understanding" - Plato said "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others" - Socrates said "An unexamined life, is not worth living" The document contains over a dozen additional quotes from prominent philosophers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Descartes, Marx, Hegel, Spinoza, Rousseau, Epicurus, Aquinas, Hume, Locke, Confucius, Mill, Leibniz, Hobbes, Bacon and Voltaire on various philosophical subjects.

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20 Philosophers

The document provides quotes from famous philosophers on a variety of topics: - Aristotle stated "Teaching is the highest form of understanding" - Plato said "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others" - Socrates said "An unexamined life, is not worth living" The document contains over a dozen additional quotes from prominent philosophers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Descartes, Marx, Hegel, Spinoza, Rousseau, Epicurus, Aquinas, Hume, Locke, Confucius, Mill, Leibniz, Hobbes, Bacon and Voltaire on various philosophical subjects.

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ARISTOTLE

“Teaching is the highest form of understanding”

PLATO

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in


others”
SOCRATES

“An unexamined life, is not worth living”

Immanuel Kant

“Experience is itself a mode of knowledge which implies intelligence”


Friedrich Nietzsche

“On truth & lying is an Extra-Moral Sense”

René Descartes

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power”


Karl Marx

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession,


an at the same time the immoral movement of its time”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“We learn from the history that we do not learn from history”
Baruch Spinoza

“All noble things are as difficult as they are rare”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode
of being”
Epicurus

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember
that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for”

Thomas Aquinas

“Because Philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way


to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and Philosophers are alike
in being big with wonder”
David Hume

“It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one
of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”

John Locke

“Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins”


Confucius

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”

John Stuart Mill

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his
inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the
injury”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“Everything that is possible demands to exist”

Thomas Hobbes

“The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against


everyone”
Francis Bacon

“In charity there is no excess”

Voltaire

“Common sense is not so common”

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