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

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily

William of Ockham

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God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy

Jeremy Bentham

Philosophy

To be is to be perceived

Bishop George Berkeley

Philosophy

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

G. W. F. Hegel

Philosophy

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy

We live in the best of all possible worlds

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Philosophy

The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy

One cannot step twice in the same river

Heraclitus

Philosophy

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

Immanuel Kant

Philosophy

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

Niccolo Machiavelli

Philosophy

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience

John Locke

Philosophy

The unexamined life is not worth living

Socrates

Philosophy

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide

Albert Camus

Philosophy

He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors

Martin Heidegger

Philosophy

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

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Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily

God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.

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

To be is to be perceived

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

We live in the best of all possible worlds

The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

One cannot step twice in the same river

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience

The unexamined life is not worth living

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide

He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors

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