I think therefore I am I think therefore I am. Descartes

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates BCE

God understands everything through eternal truth, since he does not need experience. Leibniz

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855

You cannot step in the same river twice. Heraclitus BCE

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Jeremy Bentham

Always recognise that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. Immanuel Kant

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle BCE

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato BCE

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei

What made Adam capable of obeying God’s commands also made him able to Sin. St Augustine of Hippo

We believe that You [God] are that than which nothing greater can be thought. St Anselm

The human mind is part of the infinite intellect of God. Benedictus Spinoza

Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of men. Mary Wollstonecraft

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. John Stuart Mill

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. Joseph Butler

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. C.S. Lewis

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. John Calvin

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him. Cicero BCE

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has no discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. David Hume

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Sigmund Freud

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. Gilbert Ryle

Education is the art of making man ethical. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We ought to love people and use things, the essence of immorality is to love things and use people. Joseph Fletcher

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche

Our preferences cannot count any more than the preferences of others. Peter Singer 1946-

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious protected selves. Rowan Williams 1950-

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Bertrand Russell

Being is. Being is in- itself. Being is what it is. Jean-Paul Sartre

He who risks and fails can be forgive. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich

This is the first precept of the law, that good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided. All other precepts of the natural law are based on this. St Thomas Aquinas

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.. G.E. Moore

At the centre of non- violence stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King Jnr

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa

AS Ethics Moral Absolutism and Moral relativism Natural Moral Law Kantian Ethics Utilitarianism Religious Ethics Abortion and the Right to a Child Euthanasia and the Right to Life Genetic Engineering and Embryo research War and Peace

A2 Ethics Meta Ethics – The Language of Ethics Virtue Ethics Free Will and Determinism Conscience Environmental and Business Ethics Sexual Ethics

AS Philosophy Ancient Greek Philosophy Judaeo-Christian Influences on Philosophy Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God Challenges to Religious Belief

A2 Philosophy Religious Language Religious Experience Miracles Attributes of God Life and death; the Soul