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Most Important Philosophical Quotes Ever  
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These are the top ten philosophical quotations ever made:

1.	“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates (470-399 BCE)
2.	“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” – William of Ockham (1285 - 1349?)
3.	“The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” – Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)
4.	“I think therefore I am” – René Descartes (1596 – 1650)
5.	“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” – Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)
6.	“We live in the best of all possible worlds.” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716)
7.	“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.” G.W.F. Hegel (1770 – 1831)
8.	“Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith – when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith – this [is] subjectivity … at its height.” – Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
9.	“God is dead.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
10.	“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” – Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)
11.	“One cannot step twice in the same river.” – Heraclitus (ca. 540 – ca. 480 BCE)

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