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Quotations 49–72 of 692.

  1. Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
  2. What do I know?
  3. To philosophize is to learn how to die.
  4. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
  5. The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs kindling.
  6. I think, therefore I am.
  7. Once in a lifetime, everything must be doubted.
  8. The things we conceive very clearly and very distinctly are all true.
  9. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
  10. God, or Nature.
  11. The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
  12. Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
  13. [In the state of nature, the life of man is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
  14. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
  15. We must cultivate our garden.
  16. Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe…: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
  17. Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
  18. Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding!
  19. Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means.
  20. The world is my representation.
  21. Compassion is the basis of morality.
  22. From the military school of life. — What does not kill me makes me stronger.
  23. Amor fati: let that be my love from now on!
  24. How one becomes what one is.