Philosophy Quotes: Who Said What

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"I think, therefore I am."

"I know that I know nothing."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.:

"Man is condemned to be free."

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky... Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"

"This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."

"On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength... on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger."

"You could not step twice into the same river."

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

"There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground."

"To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible... the survival of reason."

"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."