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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. [The Gay Science]. 1882. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, March 1974.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, 1974, aphorism, 261.

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Plato. Theatetus. c. 400 B. C., l. 155d.

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Plato. Apology. 399 BC, 38a.

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Plato. "Apology." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo. Translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones. And William Preddy. Harvard UP, 2017, 38a5-6.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. 1651.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Penguin, 2017.

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Diderot, Denis. Les Eleutheromanes. 1772.

Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras

Quoted in Theaetetus, by Plato

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Plato. Theatetus. c. 400 B. C., l. 152a.

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Plato. Theatetus. Translated by Robin H. Waterfield. Penguin, 1987, l. 152a.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique [The Social Contract]. 1762.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings. Translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin, 2012.

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Thales. Quoted in "Thales," The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. 3rd century BC, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. 6th century B. C., ch. 64, l. 12.

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Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao. Translated by John Minford. Penguin, 2019.

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

Metaphysics

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Aristotle. Metaphysics. 322 BC, bk. 1, 980a.

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Aristotle. Metaphysics. Penguin, 1999, bk. 1, 980a.

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Descartes, René. Discours de la Méthode Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences. 1637, pt. 4.

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Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method. Translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford UP, 2008, pt. 4.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

The Life of Reason

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Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, ch. 12. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905

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Aristotle. Politics. 350 BC, bk. 1, 1253a, l. 2-3.

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Aristotle. Politics. Translated by Ernest Barker. Edited by R. F. Stalley. Oxford UP, 2009, bk.1, 1253a, l. 2-3.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness]. Editions Galllimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1, sect. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness. Translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square P, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1, sect. 1.

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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics]. 1677, pt. 1, prop. 15, note.

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Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics. Translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge UP, 2018, pt. 1, prop. 15, note.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic by Plato. Book 2, sect. 369c.

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Plato. Republic. Translated by G. M. A. Grube, Revised by C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing, 1992, book 1, line 338c.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic. Written by Plato. 375 BC, 8, 562a.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic. Written by Plato. Translated by G. M. A Grube and C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing, 1992, 8, 562a.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic. Written by Plato. 375 BC, 1, 352d.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic. Written by Plato. Translated by G. M. A Grube and C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing, 1992, 1, 352d.

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Agathon. Quoted in Nicomathean Ethics by Aristotle. 4th century BC, bk. 6, ch. 2, sect.5.

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Agathon. Quoted in Nicomathean Ethics by Aristotle. Translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing Company, 2019, bk. 6, ch. 2, sect. 5.

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Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. 322 BC, bk 1, ch. 7, sect. 16.

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Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics.Translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2019, bk. 1, ch. 7, sect. 16.