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"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
A German philosopher (a native of the Kingdom of Prussia) and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy. -
"There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened."
Was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought. -
"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."
He is a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. -
"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, scientist, and historian best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan (1651). His enduring contribution was as a political philosopher who justified wide-ranging government powers on the basis of the self-interested consent of citizens. In Hobbes’s social contract, the many trade liberty for safety. -
"The greatest kindness one can render to any
man consists in leading him from error to truth."
Was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. -
"There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable."
He was the author of the first surviving lines of Western philosophy. He speculated and argued about “the Boundless” as the origin of all that is. He also worked on the fields of what we now call geography and biology. Moreover, Anaximander was the first speculative astronomer. He originated the world-picture of the open universe, which replaced the closed universe of the celestial vault. -
"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."
One of the few individuals whom one could say has so-shaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that, without him, history would be profoundly different. He is best known for his association with the Socratic method of question and answer, his claim that he was ignorant (or aware of his own absence of knowledge), and his claim that the unexamined life is not worth living, for human beings. -
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”
He is one of the world’s best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he wrote in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. in ancient Greece. Though influenced primarily by Socrates, to the extent that Socrates is usually the main character in many of Plato’s writings, he was also influenced by Heraclitus, Parmenides, and the Pythagoreans. -
"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."
One of the greatest philosophers who ever lived and the first genuine scientist in history. He made pioneering contributions to all fields of philosophy and science, he invented the field of formal logic, and he identified the various scientific disciplines and explored their relationships to each other. He was also a teacher and founded his own school in Athens, known as the Lyceum. -
"Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness."
He was a sage and Greek philosopher who was highly influential. He believed that the goal of human life revolved around happiness, resulting from the absence of mental disturbances and physical pain.