Philosophers - Quotes - Statistics

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Quote Philosopher % Correct
"I think, therefore I am" René Descartes (1596 – 1650)
84%
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing” Socrates (470 – 399 BC)
81%
“God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.” Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
77%
“Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people” Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
67%
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%
"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%
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet". Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
42%
“One cannot step twice in the same river” Heraclitus (ca. 540 – ca. 480 BC)
42%
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
40%
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" Laozi (ca. 604 – 531 BC)
37%
“We live in the best of all possible worlds” Gottfried Leibniz (1646 – 1716)
26%
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated" Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
23%
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." Augustine of Hippo (350-430)
16%
“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%
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ” Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
14%
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” David Hume (1711 – 1776)
12%
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%
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274)
7%
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536)
5%
"It takes two men to fight" Seneca the Younger (ca. 4 BC – 65 AD)
2%
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