50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know Quotes

“What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others … As you yourself desire standing, then help others achieve it; as you yourself desire success, then help others attain it.” Confucius, c.500 BC”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

“What is known must be perfect, eternal and unchanging, and”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

“So in everything, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, for this sums up the law and the prophets.” Jesus, c.AD 30”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

“Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you.” Muhammad, c. AD 630”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement,” Whitehead pointed”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

“Rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.” Mahatma Gandhi, 1926”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

“At the core of his philosophy, however, is a strikingly original metaphysical theory that assumes the existence of a realm of eternal and unchanging realities, distinct from the shifting world of everyday experience.”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

“The aim of philosophy, Adam Smith suggested, is “to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

“wisdom lies in awareness of one’s own ignorance”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
― Ben Dupré, 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know