| Quote | Philosopher | % Correct |
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| "I think, therefore I am" | René Descartes (1596 – 1650) | 84%
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| “The only thing I know is that I know nothing” | Socrates (470 – 399 BC) | 81%
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| “God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.” | Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) | 77%
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| “Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people” | Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) | 67%
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| There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world | Plato (ca. 425 – 348 BC) | 60%
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| "One ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved" | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) | 47%
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| "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet". | Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) | 42%
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| “One cannot step twice in the same river” | Heraclitus (ca. 540 – ca. 480 BC) | 42%
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| May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. | Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) | 40%
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| "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" | Laozi (ca. 604 – 531 BC) | 37%
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| “We live in the best of all possible worlds” | Gottfried Leibniz (1646 – 1716) | 26%
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| "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated" | Confucius (551 – 479 BC) | 23%
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| "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." | Augustine of Hippo (350-430) | 16%
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| “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” | George Berkeley (1685 – 1753) | 16%
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| “Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ” | Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) | 14%
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| "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” | David Hume (1711 – 1776) | 12%
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| Death is not important. As long we are here, there is no death. And when death is there, we will not be here anymore. | Epicure (341–270 BC) | 12%
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| “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” | Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) | 7%
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| In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. | Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536) | 5%
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| "It takes two men to fight" | Seneca the Younger (ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) | 2%
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