Who said “I know that I know nothing”?
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Socrates
It stands for admitting one's own limits.
💡 Did you know? That, said the oracle, made him the wisest.
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Who said “I think, therefore I am”?
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René Descartes
In Latin: “Cogito ergo sum”.
💡 Did you know? It was his one indubitable truth.
Who said “God is dead”?
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Friedrich Nietzsche
He meant the fading of religious certainties.
💡 Did you know? It is one of philosophy's most-quoted lines.
Who said “Man is a wolf to man”?
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Thomas Hobbes
He used it to justify a strong state.
💡 Did you know? His main work is “Leviathan”.
Who said “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It opens his “Social Contract”.
💡 Did you know? He indicts the constraints of society.
Who said “The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me”?
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Immanuel Kant
It is inscribed on his gravestone.
💡 Did you know? Both filled him with awe.
Who said “Man is condemned to be free”?
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Jean-Paul Sartre
We must choose: even not choosing is a choice.
💡 Did you know? A core of existentialism.
Who said “Knowledge is power”?
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Francis Bacon
He is a pioneer of modern science.
💡 Did you know? He stressed the systematic experiment.
To whom is the maxim “the end justifies the means” attributed?
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Niccolò Machiavelli
In “The Prince” he advises rulers.
💡 Did you know? “Machiavellian” means “ruthlessly scheming”.
Which pre-Socratic said “everything flows” (panta rhei)?
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Heraclitus
“You cannot step into the same river twice.”
💡 Did you know? For him, constant change is the basic principle.
Who said “Man is the measure of all things”?
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Protagoras
He was one of the most famous Sophists.
💡 Did you know? The line is seen as early relativism.
Who said “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
He put language at the centre of philosophy.
💡 Did you know? “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
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