Some cool quotes by different people.

History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

--Karl Marx


Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.

--Karl Popper

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

--Karl Jaspers