1. I think therefore I am I think therefore I am. Descartes 1596-1650

2. The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates 470-399BCE

3. God understands everything through eternal truth, since he does not need experience. Leibniz 1646-1716

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

5. You cannot step in the same river twice. Heraclitus 535-475BCE

6. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832

7. Always recognise that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. Immanuel Kant 1724-1804

8. 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 1632-1704

9. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle 384-322 BCE

10. Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato 429-348 BCE

11. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei 1564-1642

12. What made Adam capable of obeying God’s commands also made him able to Sin. St Augustine of Hippo 354-430

13. We believe that You [God] are that than which nothing greater can be thought. St Anselm 1033-1109

14. The human mind is part of the infinite intellect of God. Benedictus Spinoza 1632-1677

15. Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of men. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797

16. It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. John Stuart Mill 1806-1873

17. Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth 1886-1968

18. Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. Joseph Butler 1692-1752

19. Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. C.S. Lewis 1898-1963

20. You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. John Calvin 1509-1564

21. A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him. Cicero 106-43 BCE

22. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has no discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin 1809-1882

23. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. David Hume 1711-1776

24. Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. Sigmund Freud 1856-1939

25. Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. Gilbert Ryle 1900-1976

26. Education is the art of making man ethical. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770-1831

27. We ought to love people and use things, the essence of immorality is to love things and use people. Joseph Fletcher 1905-1991

28. All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900

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

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

31. 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 1872-1970

32. Being is. Being is in- itself. Being is what it is. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980

33. He who risks and fails can be forgive. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich 1886-1965

34. 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 1225-1274

35. All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.. G.E. Moore 1873-1958

36. At the centre of non- violence stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King Jnr 1929-1968

37. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948

38. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa 1910-1997

39. 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

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

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

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