How Well Do You Know Famous Philosopher Quotes?
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Created 6/18/2024
Test your knowledge of famous philosopher quotes in this quiz and see how many correct answers you can get out of 20!
1. Who said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living'?
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
Pythagoras
2. Who is the author of the quote, 'God is dead'?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Søren Kierkegaard
Immanuel Kant
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3. Who said, 'I think, therefore I am'?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Immanuel Kant
4. 'The only thing I know is that I know nothing' is attributed to which philosopher?
Plato
Socrates
Epicurus
Zeno of Citium
5. Who said, 'To be is to be perceived'?
David Hume
Thomas Hobbes
George Berkeley
John Locke
6. Who stated, 'Man is condemned to be free'?
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Martin Heidegger
7. Who said, 'Without music, life would be a mistake'?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Arthur Schopenhauer
Immanuel Kant
Ludwig Wittgenstein
8. Who is known for saying, 'Hell is other people'?
Martin Heidegger
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
9. 'Liberty consists in doing what one desires' was said by which philosopher?
John Stuart Mill
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
10. Who declared, 'Knowledge is power'?
Francis Bacon
Voltaire
René Descartes
Thomas Hobbes
11. Which philosopher said, 'The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'?
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
David Hume
Francis Bacon
12. 'Man is the measure of all things' is a quote by which ancient philosopher?
Heraclitus
Protagoras
Parmenides
Zeno of Elea
13. Who said, 'Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law'?
Immanuel Kant
John Stuart Mill
G. W. F. Hegel
Baruch Spinoza
14. Who famously stated, 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains'?
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
Montesquieu
15. 'The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation' is attributed to which philosopher?
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Adam Smith
David Hume
16. Who declared, 'I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature'?
Baruch Spinoza
Immanuel Kant
René Descartes
Aristotle
17. 'We live in the best of all possible worlds' was stated by which philosopher?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Ralph Waldo Emerson
David Hume
18. Who is the philosopher known for saying, 'The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk'?
G. W. F. Hegel
Immanuel Kant
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
19. Which philosopher said, 'To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say'?
John Locke
René Descartes
Baruch Spinoza
Blaise Pascal
20. Who proclaimed, 'One cannot step twice in the same river'?
Thales
Anaximander
Heraclitus
Democritus
