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From the Book - [Revised] First American Edition
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.
From the Book - 1st American ed.
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.
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