The philosophy book

The ancient world 700 BCE-250 CE

Everything is made of water

The dao that can be told is not the eternal dao

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas

Happy is he who has overcome his ego

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles

Everything is flux

All is one

Man is the measure of all things

When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Earthly knowledge is but shadow

Truth resides in the world around us

Death is nothing to us

He has the most who is most content with the least

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature

The medieval world 250-1500

God is not the parent of evils

God foresees our free thoughts and actions

The soul is distinct from the body

Just by thinking about God we can know he exists

Philosophy and religion are not incompatible

God has no attributes

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form

The universe has not always existed

God is the not-other

To know nothing is the happiest life

Renaissance and the age of reason 1500-1750

The end justifies the means

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows

Knowledge is power

Man is a machine

I think therefore I am

Imagination decides everything

God is the cause of all things, which are in him

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience

There are two kinds of truths : truths of reasoning and truths of fact

To be is to be perceived

The age of revolution 1750-1900

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainly is absurd

Custom is the great guide of human life

Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains

Man is an animal that makes bargains

There are two worlds : our bodies and the external world

Society is indeed a contract

The greatest happiness for the greatest number

Mind has no gender

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy

Reality is a historical process

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world

Theology is anthropology

Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles

Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator?

Consider what effects things I have

Act as if what you do makes a difference

The modern world 1900-1950

Man is something to be surpassed

Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer

Every message is made of signs

Experience by itself is not science

Intuition goes in the very direction of life

We only think when we are confronted with problems

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

It is only suffering that makes us persons

Believe in life

The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work

Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher

Life is a series of collisions with the future

To philosophize, first one must confess

The limits of my language are the limits of my world

We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed

The individual's only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the community

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope

That which is cannot be true

History does not belong to us but we belong to it

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable

Intelligence is a moral category

Existence precedes essence

The banality of evil

Reason live in language

In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it

Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female

Language is a social art

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains

Think like a mountain

Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

Contemporary philosophy 1950-present

Language is a skin

How would we manage without a culture?

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance

Art is a form of life

Anything goes

Knowledge is produced to be sold

For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white

Man is an invention of recent date

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion

Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions

There is nothing outside of the text

There is nothing deep down inside us excepts what we have put there ourselves

Every desire has a reaction to madness

Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires

Thought has always worked by opposition

Who plays God in present-day feminism?

Philosophy is not only a written enterprise

In suffering, the animals are our equals

All the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

Ancient world; 700 BCE-250 CE

Everything is made of water / Thales of Miletus

The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao / Laozi

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas / Pythagoras

Happy is he who has overcome his ego / Siddartha Gautama

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles / Confucius

Everything is flux / Heraclitus

All is one / Parmenides

Man is the measure of all things / Protagoras

When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum / Mozi

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space / Democritus and Leucippus

Life which is unexamined is not worth living / Socrates

Earthly knowledge is but shadow / Plato

Truth resides in the world around us / Aristotle

Death is nothing to us / Epicurus

He has the most who is most content with the least / Diogenes of Sinope

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature / Zeno of citium.

Medieval world; 250-1500: God is not the parent of evils / St. Augustine of Hippo

God forsees our free thoughts and actions / Boethius

the soul is distinct from the body / Avicenna

Just by thinking about God we can know he exists / St. Anselm

Philosophy and religion are not incompatible / Averroes

God has no attributes / Moses Maimonides

Don't grieve. anything you lose comes round in another form / Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

The universe has not always existed / Thomas Aquinas

god is the not-other / Nikolaus von Kues

To know nothing is the happiest life / Desiderius Erasmus.

Renaissance and the age of reason; 1500-1750: The end justifies the means / Niccolo Machiavelli

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows / Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge is power / Francis Bacon

Man is a machine / Thomas Hobbes

I think therefore I am / Rene Descartes

Imagination decides everything / Blaise Pascal

god is the cause of all things, which are in him / Benedictus Spinoza

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience / John Locke

There are two kinds of truths: truths of reasoning and truths of fact / Gottfried Leibniz

To be is to be perceived / George Berkeley.

Age of revolution; 1750-1900: Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd / Voltaire

Custom is the great guide of human life / David Hume

Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is an animal that makes bargains / Adam Smith

There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world / Immanuel Kant

Society is indeed a contract / Edmund Burke

The greatest happiness for the greatest number / Jeremy Bentham

Mind has no gender / Mary Wollstonecraft

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is / Johann Gottlieb Fichte

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy / Friedrich Schlegel

Reality is a historical process / Georg Hegel

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer

Theology is anthropology / Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Over his own body and mind, the individual is soverign / John Stuart Mill

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom / Soren Kierkegaard

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles / Karl Marx

Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator? / Henry David Thoreau

Consider what effects things have / Charles Sanders Peirce

Act as if what you do makes a difference / William James.

Modern world; 1900-1950: Man is something to be surpassed / Friedrich Nietzsche

Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer / Ahad Ha'am

Every message is made of signs / Ferdinand de Saussure

Experience by itself is not science / Edmund Husserl

Intuition goes in the very direction of life / Henri Bergson

We only think when we are confronted with problems / John Dewey

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it / George Santayana

It is only suffering that makes us persons / Miguel de Unamuno

Believe in life / William du Bois

The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work / Bertrand Russell

Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge / Max Scheler

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher / Karl Jaspers

Life is a series of collisions with the future / Jose Ortega y Gasset

To philosophize, first one must confess / Hajime Tanabe

The limits of my language are the limits of my world / Ludwig Wittgenstein

We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed / Martin Heidegger

The individual's only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the community / Tetsuro Watsuji

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy / Rudolf Carnap

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope / Walter Benjamin

That which is cannot be true / Herbert Marcuse

History does not belong to us but we belong to it / Hans-Georg Gadamer

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable / Karl Popper

Intelligence is a moral category / Theodor Adorno

Existence precedes essence Jean-Paul Sartre

The banality of evil / Hannah Arendt

Reason lives in language / Emmanuel Levinas

In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it / Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female / Simone de Beauvoir

Language is a social art / Willard Van Orman Quine

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains / Isaiah Berlin

Think like a mountain / Arne Naess

Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning / Albert Camus.

Contemporary philosophy; 1950- present: Language is a skin / Roland Barthes

How would we manage without a culture? / Mary Midgley

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory / Thomas Kuhn

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance / John Rawls

Art is a form of life / Richard Wollheim

Anything goes / Paul Feyerabend

Knowledge is produced to be sold / Jean-Francois Lyotard

For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white / Frantz Fanon

Man is an invention of recent date / Michel Foucault

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion / Noam Chomsky

Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions / Jurgen Habermas

There is nothing outside of the text / Jacuues Derrida

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves / Richard Rorty

Every desire has a relation to madness / Luce Irigaray

Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires / Edward Said

Thought has always worked by opposition / Helene Cixous

Who plays God in present-day feminism? / Julia Kristeva

Philosophy is not only a written enterprise / Henry Odera Oruka

In suffering, the animals are our equals / Peter Singer

All the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure / Slavoj Zizek.