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The Evolution of Philosophy

  • Jan 22, 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
    "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
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    Francis Bacon

    "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes
    "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am)
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    Rene Descartes

    "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am)
  • John Locke

    John Locke
    "A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."
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    John Locke

    "A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
    "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
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    Isaac Newton

    "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
  • Immanuel Kant

    Immanuel Kant
    "Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
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    Immanuel Kant

    "Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
  • John Stuart Mill

    John Stuart Mill
    "There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
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    John Stuart Mill

    "There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
  • Karl Heinrich Marx

    Karl Heinrich Marx
    "Revolutions are the locomotives of history."
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    Karl Heinrich Marx

    "Revolutions are the locomotives of history."
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
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    Albert Einstein

    "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
  • Viktor E. Frankl

    Viktor E. Frankl
    "For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."
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    Viktor E. Frankl

    "For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."