Product Description

This memorable collection of quotations is a treasure trove of insight and wisdom by ninety great philosophers of Western civilization, including Saint Thomas Aquinas, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Sir. Alfred J. Ayer, Francis Bacon, Simone de Beauvoir, Edmund Burke, Albert Camus, Cicero, John Dewey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Engels, Heraclitus, Thomas Hobbes, Eric Hoffer, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Niccolo Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill, Lewis Mumford, Friedrich Nietzsche, Blaise Pascal, Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, Jean-Paul Sartre, Socrates, Benedict Spinoza, Henry David Thoreau, Alexis de Tocqueville, Voltaire, and Alfred North Whitehead.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #601574 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 260 pages

Customer Reviews

Important Book!
As a teacher, I believe that this impressive book should be included in all high school and college libraries!

The Book for Smart People
In this age of the dumbing down of everything, it's a delight to read very wise words from the great thinkers Dingle has chosen for her wonderful book. Impressive book!

Does not cite original sources
To publish a book that contains the words of philosophers without giving references and source material is ludicrous. Don't just tell me that someone said something, give me give me chapter and verse. In what book did they write it? Which newspaper quoted it? In which magazine was the interview found? When and where did they deliver the speech? There is an endless supply of books and internet sites that quote famous people incorrectly. The common element in all of them is that they don't give the original sources. Every quotation in this book may be factual, but without citing the original sources, there is no way to know short of doing the research the author should have done with each and every entry.

Unsourced quotes are just gossip.