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1. "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
"I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome."
"Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil."
Which philosopher's quotes are these?
2. "The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
Which philosopher's quotes are these?
3. "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
"The thing-in-itself, the will-to-live, exists whole and undivided in every being, even in the tiniest; it is present as completely as in all that ever were, are, and will be, taken together."
"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
Which philosopher's quotes are these?
4. "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
"The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."
Which philosopher's quotes are these?
5. "A man's character is his destiny."
"The road up and the road down is one and the same."
"All is flux, nothing stays still."
Which philosopher's quotes are these?
6. "Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."
"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
"Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains."
Which philosopher's quotes are these?
7. "God is the cause of all things, which are in him."
"Nature abhors a vacuum."
"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."
Which philosopher's quotes are these?
8. "Life can only be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards."
"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."
"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes."
Which philosopher's quotes are these?
9. "The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."
"Democracy passes into despotism."
"Behold! Human beings living in an underground den... Like ourselves... They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave."
From which philosopher's writings are these quotes taken?
10. "Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us."
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."
Which philosopher's quotes are these?
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