摘取的一些哲學句子（英）

04-10

「The unexamined life is not worth living」 – Socrates
「Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent」 – Ludwig Wittgenstein
「Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily」 – William of Ockham
「The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short」 – Thomas Hobbes
「I think therefore I am」 (「Cogito, ergo sum」) – Descartes
「He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors」 – Martin Heidegger
「We live in the best of all possible worlds」 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
「What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational」 – G. W. F. Hegel
「God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.」 – Friedrich Nietzsche
「There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide」 – Albert Camus
「One cannot step twice in the same river」 – Heraclitus
「The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation」 – Jeremy Bentham
「To be is to be perceived」 (「Esse est percipi」)– Bishop George Berkeley
「Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination」 – Immanuel Kant
「No mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience」 – John Locke
「God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us」 – Niccolo Machiavelli
「Liberty consists in doing what one desires」 – John Stuart Mill
「It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true」 – Bertrand Russell
「Even while they teach, men learn」 – Seneca the Younger
「There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance」 – Socrates
「If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him」 – Voltaire
「This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities」 – Bertrand Russell
「One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another」 – Descartes
「Leisure is the mother of philosophy」 – Thomas Hobbes
「Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language」 – Ludwig Wittgenstein
「There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers」 – William James
「We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit」 – Aristotle
「Only one man ever understood me, and he didn』t understand me」 – G. W. F. Hegel
「The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone」 – John Locke
「Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you dont know」 – Bertrand Russell
「Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck」 – Immanuel Kant
「Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits」 – William James
「History is Philosophy teaching by examples」 – Thucydides
「He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god」 – Aristotle
「You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation」 – Plato
「Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly」 – Francis Bacon
「All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing」 – mistakenly attributed to Edmund Burke
「Is man merely a mistake of Gods? Or God merely a mistake of mans?」 – Friedrich Nietzsche
「I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong」 – Bertrand Russell
「Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people」 – Karl Marx
「Happiness is the highest good」 – Aristotle
「If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil」 – Baruch Spinoza
「The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it」 – Epicurus
「Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable」 – G. W. F. Hegel
「Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness」 – Immanuel Kant
「Man is condemned to be free」 – Jean-Paul Sartre
「It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth」 – John Locke
「I don』t know why we are here, but I』m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves」 – Ludwig Wittgenstein
「That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realises that his wisdom is worthless」 – Plato
「The only thing I know is that I know nothing」 – Socrates
「All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds」 – Voltaire (in parody of Leibniz)
「Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains」 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
「Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest」 – Denis Diderot
「Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative」 – Aristotle
「I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature」 – Spinoza
「Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it」 – Karl Marx
「It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence」 – W. K. Clifford
「Virtue is nothing else than right reason」 – Seneca the Younger
「Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of ones desires, but by the removal of desire」 – Epictetus
「In everything, there is a share of everything」 – Descartes
「A little philosophy inclineth mans mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men』s minds about to religion」 – Sir Francis Bacon
「The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures」 – Democritus
「Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature」 – John Locke
「To do as one would be done by, and to love ones neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality」 – John Stuart Mill
「Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident」 – Jean-Paul Sartre
「Man is the measure of all things」 – Protagoras
「We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone」 – St. Augustine
「The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone」 – John Locke

Reference:

The Basics of Philosophy?

www.philosophybasics.com

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