Quotation Quiz (Philosophy)

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1. Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.voltaire

2. The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.Bertrand Russell

3.If there were a verb meaning to believe mistakenly, it would not have a significant first person, present indicative. Ludwig Wittgenstein

4.Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Rene Descartes

5.The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.Denis Diderot

6.An unexamined life is not worth living.Socrates

7.Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.Immanuel Kant

8.Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.Arthur Schopenhauer


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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