13 Philosophical Poster Quotes by Great Thinkers on Life and Education

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What is philosophy? Philosophy Posters are a series of 13 screen prints funded via Kickstarter. The 18″x24″ print copies are available now at PhilosophyPoster for USD20 each. These posters are not printed from a printer, they are screen printed on a heavy sheet of paper. Quite literally, the term “philosophy” means, “love of wisdom.”

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In a broad sense, philosophy is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other. Stanford University is best known for their teaching in Philosophy.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. - Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. – Hannah Arendt

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ― Albert Camus
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ― Albert Camus

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One cannot start by saying that their earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance. - Simon DeBeauvoir
One cannot start by saying that their earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance. – Simon DeBeauvoir

Everything that I accepted as being true up to now I acquired from the sense or through the senses. However, I have occasionally found that they deceive me, and it is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once. - Rene Descartes
Everything that I accepted as being true up to now I acquired from the sense or through the senses. However, I have occasionally found that they deceive me, and it is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once. – Rene Descartes

The goal to be reached is the mind’s insight into what knowing is. Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The goal to be reached is the mind’s insight into what knowing is. Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ― Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. – Arthur Schopenhauer

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing - Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing – Socrates

Philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive very fragile democratic experiments in the face of structures of domination - Cornell West
Philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive very fragile democratic experiments in the face of structures of domination – Cornell West

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded. ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded. ― Ludwig Wittgenstein

Love means that you accept a person with all their failures, stupidities, ugly points, and nonetheless, you see perfection in imperfection itself. - Slavoj Zizek
Love means that you accept a person with all their failures, stupidities, ugly points, and nonetheless, you see perfection in imperfection itself. – Slavoj Zizek

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    hamisi milyango [ Reply ]

    l have learnt some thing from these beautifully quotes. I wish I were them or could meet them face to face I think I could learn more than today

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