Thinkers

all 22 quotes in this pack

• “I think, therefore I am.”
• “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.”
• “The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
• “What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
• “Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, epochs it is the rule.”
• “Religion is the opium of the people.”
• “Once as tragedy, and again as farce.”
• “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
• “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
• “In the long run we are all dead.”
• “Knowledge itself is power.”
• “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
• “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
• “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
• “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
• “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
• “Politics is the art of the possible.”
• “I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.”
• “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
• “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
• “Man is by nature a political animal.”
• “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”