Philosophers
A tour through ten minds that shaped human thought
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Socrates
c. 470–399 BC · Athens
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
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2
Plato
c. 428–348 BC · Athens
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
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3
Aristotle
384–322 BC · Stagira
"We are what we repeatedly do."
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4
Confucius
551–479 BC · Lu, China
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
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Immanuel Kant
1724–1804 · Königsberg
"Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
1844–1900 · Röcken, Germany
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
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René Descartes
1596–1650 · La Haye, France
"I think, therefore I am."
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David Hume
1711–1776 · Edinburgh
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."
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Marcus Aurelius
121–180 AD · Rome
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
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Simone de Beauvoir
1908–1986 · Paris
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
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