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"Be a philosopher, but amidst all your philosophy be still a man."

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Author: David Hume

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"Errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature | Author: David Hume

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"Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal."

Source: Fear and Trembling | Author: Søren Kierkegaard

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"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."

Source: Utilitarianism | Author: John Stuart Mill

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"It is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved."

Source: The Prince | Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

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"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper."

Source: Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Author: John Locke

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"Life can only be understood backwards."

Source: Papers and Journals | Author: Søren Kierkegaaard

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"Love the sinner and hate the sin."

Source: Letters of Saint Augustine (#211) | Author: Augustine of Hippo

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"Religion is the opium of the people."

Source: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Unfinished) | Author: Karl Marx

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"That man lives badly who does not know how to die well."

Source: On Tranquility of Mind | Author: Seneca

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"That the sun will not rise tomorrow implies no more contradiction than that it will rise."

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Author: David Hume

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"The Christian religion cannot be believed by any reasonable person."

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Author: David Hume

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"The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Source: Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil | Author: Thomas Hobbes

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"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

Source: What is Called Thinking? | Author: Martin Heidegger

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"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way"

Source: On Liberty | Author: John Stuart Mill

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"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it."

Source: The Second Treatise on Civil Government | Author: John Locke

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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Source: Reason in Common Sense | Author: George Santayana

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"Thoughts without content are empty."

Source: Critique of Pure Reason | Author: Immanuel Kant

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"We live in the best of all possible worlds."

Source: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil | Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz

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"Why are there beings at all, instead of nothing?"

Source: Introduction to Metaphysics | Author: Martin Heidegger

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