Neatorama blogs about the most important philosophical quotations:

1. “The unexamined life is not worth living? ? Socrates (470-399 BCE)
2. ?Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily? ? William of Ockham (1285 - 1349?)
3. ?The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.? ? Thomas Hobbes (1588 ? 1679)
4. ?I think therefore I am? ? Ren? Descartes (1596 ? 1650)
5. ?To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).? Or, ?If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?? ? Bishop George Berkeley (1685 ? 1753)
6. ?We live in the best of all possible worlds.? ? Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 ? 1716)
7. ?The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.? G.W.F. Hegel (1770 ? 1831)
8. ?Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith ? when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith ? this [is] subjectivity ? at its height.? ? S?ren Kierkegaard (1813 ? 1855)
9. ?God is dead.? ? Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 ? 1900)
10. ?There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.? ? Albert Camus (1913 ? 1960)
11. ?One cannot step twice in the same river.? ? Heraclitus (ca. 540 ?ca. 480 BCE)

Though i think that calling these 11 quotations the only most important ones doesnot do justice with many other great philosphies, still this post is worth a read.

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