WHO SAID WHAT

(Philosophically speaking that is)

 
Aristotle ( 384 - 322 BC ) :
           'Man is by nature a political animal."
 
Jeremy Bentham ( 1748 - 1832 ) :
           'The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.'
 
Cicero ( 106 - 43 BC ) :
           'The good of the people is the chief law.'
 
Rene Descartes ( 1596 - 1650 ) :
           'Cogito ergo sum' ( I think therefore I am ).
 
Friedrich Engels ( 1820 - 1895 ) :
           'The state is not "abolished", it withers away.'
 
Georg Hegel ( 1770 - 1831 ) :
           'What experience and history teaches is this - that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.'
 
Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 - 1697 ) :
           'The life of man ( in a state of nature ) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.'
 
Immanuel Kent ( 1724 - 1804 ) :
           'Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.'
 
John Locke ( 1632 - 1704 ) :
           'No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.'
 
Karl Marx ( 1818 - 1883 ) :
           'A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism.'
          'The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world unite.'
          'Religion is the opium of the people.'
          'The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat,'
 
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873 ) :
           'Liberty contsists in doing what one desires.'
 
Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844 - 1900 ) :
           'I teach you the Superman. Man is something to be surpassed.'
 
Blaise Pascal ( 1623 - 1662 ) :
           'Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he was a thinking reed.'
 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 - 1778 ) :
           'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.'
 
Bertrand Russell ( 1872 - 1970 ) :
           'It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supporting it true.'
 
Senaca ( about 4 BC - AD 65 ) :
           'Even while they teach, men learn.'
 
Socrates ( about 470 BC - 399 BC ) :
           'The unexamined life is not worth living.'
 
Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 - 1862 ) :
           'It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, the other to hear.'
 
Voltaire ( 1694 - 1778 ) :
           'If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.'
           'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'

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