Some Great Philosophical Sayings of all Time

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1. Some Great Philosophical Sayings of All Time
2. “ T HE U NEXAM INED LIFE IS NOT WORT H LIVING” Socrates
3. “ ENT IT IES SHOULD NOT B E M ULTIPLIED U NNECESSA RILY” William of Ockham
4. “ T HE LIFE OF M AN [IS] SOLITARY, POOR, NA ST Y, B RU T ISH, A ND SHORT .” Thomas Hobbes
5. “ I T HINK THEREFORE I AM ” René Descartes
6. “ IF A T REE FALLS IN THE FOREST A ND NO ONE I S T HERE T O HEA R IT , DOES IT M A K E A SOU ND? ” Bishop George Berkeley
7. “ WE LIVE IN THE B EST OF ALL POSSIB LE WORLDS.” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
8. “ T HE OWL OF M INERVA SPREADS ITS WINGS ONLY WI T H T HE FA LLING OF T HE D U SK .” G.W.F. Hegel
9. “ WHO IS A LSO AWARE OF THE TREM ENDOU S RI SK I NVOLVED IN FA IT H – WHEN HE NEVERT HELESS M A K ES T HE LEA P OF FA I T H – T HIS [IS] SUB JECTIVITY … AT IT S HEIGHT .” Søren Kierkegaard
10. “ T HERE IS B UT ONE TRULY SERIOU S PHI LOSOPHICA L PROB LEM , A ND T HA T I S SU ICIDE.” Albert Camus
11. “ ONE CA NNOT STEP TWICE IN THE SA M E RIVER.” Heraclitus