Philosophical Quotes I know nothing but the fact of my ignorance. Socrates ( 469bc - 399bc ) What I say is just or right means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party. Is what is loved by the Gods just because its just or is what is just, just, because it is loved by the Gods. Plato ( 429bc - 347bc ) Despite any other proof the thumb alone would convince me of Gods existence. Newton ( 1642 - 1727 ) A person who is inactive finds it difficult to be quiet. An intelligent person finds everything ridiculous, a person who is not clever, nothing, The ordinary person has no interest in general truths, the genius on the contrary overlooks and neglects what is commonplace. Life without pain is meaningless. As quoted on the BBC television comedy series Red Dwarf. Arthur Schopenhauer ( 1788 - 1860 ) The follies of mens youth are in retrospect glorious to the follies of their old age. GK Chesterton ( 1874 - 1936 ) Philosophy is the battle against the bewitchment of the intelligence by means of language. For what one cannot speak one must be silent. The world is everything that is the case. I have made everything in my book clear by being silent about it. Of his Principia Mathematica Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Ludwig Wittgenstein ( 1889 - 1951 )
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