I think therefore I am am Descartes 1596

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates 470 -399 BCE

God understands everything through eternal truth, since he does not need experience. Leibniz 1646

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what

You cannot step in the same river twice. Heraclitus 535 -475 BCE

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Always recognise that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means

All mankind. . . being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to

What made Adam capable of obeying God’s commands also made him able to Sin.

We believe that You [God] are that than which nothing greater can be thought.

The human mind is part of the infinite intellect of God. Benedictus Spinoza 1632

Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of men. Mary

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. John Stuart Mill

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth 1886 -1968

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him. Cicero 106 -43

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has no discovered the

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. David Hume

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a

Education is the art of making man ethical. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 -1831

We ought to love people and use things, the essence of immorality is to

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Our preferences cannot count any more than the preferences of others. Peter Singer 1946

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious protected

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is

Being is initself. Being is what it is. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 -1980

He who risks and fails can be forgive. He who never risks and never

This is the first precept of the law, that good is to be done

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good

At the centre of nonviolence stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King Jnr

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can

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I think therefore I am. am Descartes 1596 -1650

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates 470 -399 BCE

God understands everything through eternal truth, since he does not need experience. Leibniz 1646 -1716

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855

You cannot step in the same river twice. Heraclitus 535 -475 BCE

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Jeremy Bentham 1748 -1832

Always recognise that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. Immanuel Kant 1724 -1804

All mankind. . . being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke 1632 -1704

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle 384 -322 BCE

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato 429 -348 BCE

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei 1564 -1642

What made Adam capable of obeying God’s commands also made him able to Sin. St Augustine of Hippo 354 -430

We believe that You [God] are that than which nothing greater can be thought. St Anselm 1033 -1109

The human mind is part of the infinite intellect of God. Benedictus Spinoza 1632 -1677

Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of men. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 -1797

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. John Stuart Mill 1806 -1873

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth 1886 -1968

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. Joseph Butler 1692 -1752

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. C. S. Lewis 1898 -1963

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. John Calvin 1509 -1564

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him. Cicero 106 -43 BCE

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has no discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin 1809 -1882

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. David Hume 1711 -1776

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Sigmund Freud 1856 -1939

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. Gilbert Ryle 1900 -1976

Education is the art of making man ethical. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 -1831

We ought to love people and use things, the essence of immorality is to love things and use people. Joseph Fletcher 1905 -1991

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 -1900

Our preferences cannot count any more than the preferences of others. Peter Singer 1946 -

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious protected selves. Rowan Williams 1950 -

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Bertrand Russell 1872 -1970

Being is initself. Being is what it is. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 -1980

He who risks and fails can be forgive. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich 1886 -1965

This is the first precept of the law, that good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided. All other precepts of the natural law are based on this. St Thomas Aquinas 1225 -1274

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. . G. E. Moore 1873 -1958

At the centre of nonviolence stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King Jnr 1929 -1968

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 -1948

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa 1910 -1997

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