c600BC | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/ancientgreeks77.jpg) | The First Philosophers
"Philosophy begins with Thales" | The First Philosophers |
c450BC | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/confucius77.gif) | CONFUCIUS
"The object of the superior man is truth" | The Analects |
c355BC | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/socrates77.gif) | PLATO
"Until Philosophers are kings...cities will never have rest from their troubles" | The Republic
The Symposium
The Apology |
c300BC | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/aristotle77.gif) | ARISTOTLE
"If it is in our power to act nobly, it is also in our power to do evil" | Nicomachean Ethics
The Politics |
c300BC | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/epicurus77.gif) | EPICURUS
"No pleasure is a bad thing in itself" | Sovran Maxims |
c50BC | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/cicero77.gif) | CICERO
"Virtue is the foundation of friendship" | On Friendship and Old Age |
c180AD | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/marcusa77.gif) | Marcus AURELIUS
"...We live but for a moment" | Meditations |
c390 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/augustine77.gif) | St AUGUSTINE
"Too late have I come to love you, O beauty so ancient and so fresh" | Confessions |
c520 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/boethius77.gif) | Severinus BOETHIUS
"The good are always strong" | The Consolation of Philosophy |
1515 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/erasmus77.gif) | Desiderius ERASMUS
"Fortune favours the fool" | In Praise of Folly |
1515 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/more77.gif) | Thomas MORE
"All princes have more delights in warlike matters... than in the good feats of peace" | Utopia |
1520 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/mach77.gif) | Niccolò MACHIAVELLI
"Men ought either to be well treated or crushed" | The Prince |
1543 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/copernicus77.gif) | Nicolaus COPERNICUS
"Therefore, the earth is not flat" | Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs |
1605 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/bacon77.gif) | Francis BACON
"if a man ... be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. | The Advancement of Learning |
1637 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/descartes77.gif) | René DESCARTES
"I think, therefore I am" | Meditations on First Philosophy
Discourse on Method |
1651 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/hobbes77.gif) | Thomas HOBBES
"...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" | Leviathan |
1660 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/pascal77.gif) | Blaise PASCAL
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" | Thoughts |
1677 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/spinoza77.gif) | Baruch SPINOZA
"there can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope" | Ethics |
1677 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/newton77.jpg) | Isaac NEWTON
"I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me" | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy |
1690 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/locke77.gif) | John LOCKE
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts" | Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
1698 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/leibniz77.gif) | Gottfried LEIBNIZ
"The soul is the mirror of the universe" | Monadology |
1710 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/berkeley77.gif) | George BERKELEY
"Essence IS perception" | Principles of Human Knowledge |
1751 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/hume77.gif) | David HUME
"It is never possible to deduce judgements of value from matters of fact" | Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
1762 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/rousseau77.gif) | Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU
"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in irons" | The Social Contract |
1776 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/smith77.gif) | Adam SMITH
"It is not from the benevolence of the.. baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest" | The Wealth of Nations |
1781 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/kant77.gif) | Immanuel KANT
"Reason is the pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the sciences" | Critiques of Pure & Practical Reason
Metaphysics of Morals |
1789 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/bentham77.gif) | Jeremy BENTHAM
"Mankind is governed by pain and pleasure" | Principles of Morals and Legislation |
1792 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/paine77.gif) | Thomas PAINE
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil" | The Rights of Man |
1792 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/wollstonecraft77.gif) | Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT
"I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves" | Vindication of the Rights of Women |
1795 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/sade77.gif) | Le Marquis De SADE
"Cruelty is a virtue, not a vice" | Philosophy in the Boudoir |
1795 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/comte77.gif) | Auguste COMTE
"Society... cannot be regarded as composed of individuals" | Positive Philosophy |
1830 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/clausewitz77.gif) | Carl Von CLAUSEWITZ
"War is the continuation of politics by other means" | On War |
1835 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/tocqueville77.jpg) | Alexis de TOCQEVILLE
"In America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself" | Democracy in America |
1832 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/hegel77.gif) | GWF HEGEL
"God is the absolute truth" | The Philosophy of Religion
The Philosophy of History |
1836 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/emerson77.jpg) | Ralph Waldo EMERSON
"A man is a god in ruins" | Nature |
1844 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/schopenhauer77.gif) | Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
"We can surely never arrive at the nature of things from without" | The World as Will and Idea |
1846 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/marxengels77.gif) | MARX and ENGELS
"The ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas" | The Communist Manifesto
The German Ideology |
1859 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/mill77.gif) | John Stuart MILL
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign" | On Liberty
A System of Logic |
1854 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/thoreau77.gif) | Henry D THOREAU
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices" | Walden |
1859 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/darwin77.gif) | Charles DARWIN
"...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved" | On The Origin of Species |
1886 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/nietzsche77.gif) | Friedrich NIETZSCHE
"When you stare into an abyss ... the abyss also stares into you". | Beyond Good and Evil |
1902 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/james77.gif) | William JAMES
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience". | Varieties of Religious Experience |
1910 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/freud77.gif) | Sigmund FREUD
"...we men... find reality generally quite unsatisfactory" | Psychoanalysis |
1916 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/einstein77.gif) | Albert EINSTEIN
"Gott würfelt nicht (God does not play dice)" | Relativity |
1921 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/wittgenstein77.gif) | Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
"The world is the totality of facts, not things" | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
1936 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/ayer77.gif) | A.J. AYER
"...logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else" | Language, Truth + Logic |
1945 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/sartre77.gif) | Jean-Paul SARTRE
"Once freedom has exploded in the soul of man, the gods no longer have any power over him" | Existentialism is a Humanism |
1950 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/turing77.gif) | Alan TURING
"Can machines think?" | Computing Machinery & Intelligence |
1957 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/popper77.gif) | Sir Karl POPPER
"Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification" | The Logic of Scientific Discovery |
1964 | ![](/web/20180831001603im_/http://sqapo.com/rand77.gif) | Ayn RAND
"Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness" | The Virtue of Selfishness |
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