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Most Important Philosophical Quotes Ever
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These are the top ten philosophical quotations ever made:
| 1. | “The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates (470-399 BCE) |
| 2. | “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” – William of Ockham (1285 - 1349?) |
| 3. | “The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” – Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) |
| 4. | “I think therefore I am” – René Descartes (1596 – 1650) |
| 5. | “To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” – Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1753) |
| 6. | “We live in the best of all possible worlds.” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716) |
| 7. | “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.” G.W.F. Hegel (1770 – 1831) |
| 8. | “Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith – when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith – this [is] subjectivity … at its height.” – Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) |
| 9. | “God is dead.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) |
| 10. | “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” – Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) |
| 11. | “One cannot step twice in the same river.” – Heraclitus (ca. 540 – ca. 480 BCE) |
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