"Until Philosophers are kings... |
| PLATO The Republic (c355BC) | Reading Time: 12%61 mins |
| The Symposium (c355BC) |  17%22 mins | ||
| The Apology (c355BC) | 21% 22 mins | ||
"If it is in our power to act nobly, |
| ARISTOTLENicomachean Ethics (c300BC) |  12%40 mins |
| The Politics (c300BC) | 4% 22 mins | ||
"No pleasure is a bad thing in itself" |  | EPICURUS Sovran Maxims (c300BC) |  100%5 mins |
"Virtue is the foundation of friendship" |  | CICERO On Friendship and Old Age (c50BC) | 16% 16 mins |
"...We live but for a moment" |  | Marcus AURELIUSMeditations (c180AD) | 6% 21 mins |
"Too late have I come to love you, O beauty so ancient and so fresh" |
| St AUGUSTINE Confessions (c390) | 6% 40 mins |
"The good are always strong" |
| Severinus BOETHIUS The Consolation of Philosophy (c520) | 7% 10 mins |
"Fortune favours the fool." |
| Desiderius ERASMUS In Praise of Folly (1515) | 8% 11 mins |
"All princes have more delights in warlike matters... than in the good feats of peace" |
| Thomas MOREUtopia (1515) | 8% 12 mins |
"Men ought either to be well treated or crushed" |
| Niccolò MACHIAVELLIThe Prince (1520) |  24%31 mins |
"Therefore, the earth is not flat" |
| Nicolaus COPERNICUSRevolutions of the Celestial Orbs (1543) | 19% 17 mins |
"if a man ... be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. |
| Francis BACONThe Advancement of Learning (1605) | 9% 30 mins |
"I think, therefore I am" |
| René DESCARTESMeditations on First Philosophy (1641) | 13% 26 mins |
| Discourse on Method (1637) | 16% 12 mins | ||
"...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" |
| Thomas HOBBESLeviathan (1651) | 5% 47 mins |
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed." |
| Blaise PASCAL Thoughts (1660) | 9% 24 mins |
"there can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope" |
| Baruch SPINOZA Ethics (1677) | 11% 31 mins |
"I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me." |
| Isaac NEWTONMathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1677) | 4% 20 mins |
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts" |
| John LOCKEEssay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) | 4% 43 mins |
"The soul is the mirror of the universe" |
| Gottfried LEIBNIZ Monadology (1698) | 38% 8 mins |
"Essence IS perception" |
| George BERKELEYPrinciples of Human Knowledge (1710) | 15% 20 mins |
"It is never possible to deduce judgements of value from matters of fact" |
| David HUMEEnquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1751) | 13% 26 mins |
"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in irons" |
| Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU The Social Contract (1762) | 20% 36 mins |
"It is not from the benevolence of the.. baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." |
| Adam SMITHThe Wealth of Nations (1776) | 3% 50 mins |
"Reason is the pupil of itself alone. |
| Immanuel KANTCritiques of Pure & Practical Reason (1781) | 3% 23 mins |
| Metaphysics of Morals (1785) | 16% 28 mins | ||
"Mankind is governed by pain and pleasure" |
| Jeremy BENTHAMPrinciples of Morals and Legislation (1789) | 3% 12 mins |
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil" |
| Thomas PAINEThe Rights of Man (1792) | 8% 29 mins |
"I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves." |
| Mary WOLLSTONECRAFTVindication of the Rights of Women (1792) | 9% 31 mins |
"Cruelty is a virtue, not a vice." |
| Le Marquis De SADEPhilosophy in the Boudoir (1795) | 11% 31 mins |
"Society... cannot be regarded as composed of individuals.." |
| Auguste COMTE Positive Philosophy (1795) | 11% 15 mins |
"War is the continuation of politics by other means" |
| Carl Von ClausewitzOn War (1830) | 9% 27 mins |
"God is the absolute truth." |
| GWF HEGEL The Philosophy of Religion (1832) | 9% 22 mins |
"We can surely never arrive at the nature of things from without." |
| Arthur SCHOPENHAUER The World as Will and Idea (1844) | 6% 12 mins |
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas." |  | MARX and ENGELSThe German Ideology (1846) | 19% 22 mins |
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." |
| John Stuart MILLOn Liberty (1859) | 10% 21 mins |
| A System of Logic (1843) | 3% 12 mins | ||
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices.." |
| Henry D THOREAUWalden (1854) | 9% 33 mins |
"...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." |
| Charles DARWINOn The Origin of Species (1859) | 6% 38 mins |
"When you stare into an abyss for a long time, |
| Friedrich NIETZSCHEBeyond Good and Evil (1886) | 14% 36 mins |
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, |
| William JAMES Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) | 8% 60 mins |
"...we men... find reality generally quite unsatisfactory" |
| Sigmund FREUDPsychoanalysis (1910) | 32% 27 mins |
"Gott würfelt nicht (God does not play dice)" |
| Albert EINSTEINRelativity (1916) | 8% 20 mins |
"The world is the totality of facts, not things." |
| Ludwig WITTGENSTEINTractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) | 6% 20 mins |
"The world is not there to be possessed |
| Adolf HITLERMy Struggle (1927) | 6% 31 mins |
"...logic and mathematics are true |
| A.J. AYERLanguage, Truth + Logic (1936) | 13% 31 mins |
"Once freedom has exploded in the soul of man, |
| Jean-Paul SARTREExistentialism is a Humanism (1945) | 23% 10 mins |
"Can machines think?" |
| Alan TURING Computing Machinery & Intelligence (1950) | 29% 14 mins |
"Science may be described as the art of |
| Sir Karl POPPER The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1957) |
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein
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