The 15 quiz questions
Question 1 : "The unexamined life is not worth living." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Plato
- Socrates
- Aristotle
- Epicurus
Question 2 : "Man is condemned to be free." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Merleau-Ponty
- Heidegger
- Beauvoir
- Sartre
Question 3 : "What does not kill me makes me stronger." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Nietzsche
- Schopenhauer
- Kierkegaard
- Freud
Question 4 : "Happiness is the greatest conquest, the one we achieve against fate." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Sartre
- Malraux
- Camus
- Gide
Question 5 : "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." — Who wrote this famous sentence?
Possible answers:
- Simone Weil
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Hannah Arendt
- Virginia Woolf
Question 6 : "No one does wrong willingly." — Which philosopher is credited with this thesis?
Possible answers:
- Aristotle
- Socrates
- Plato
- Parmenides
Question 7 : "Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself." — Who wrote this?
Possible answers:
- Spinoza
- Descartes
- Leibniz
- Malebranche
Question 8 : "Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Kant
- Fichte
- Schelling
- Hegel
Question 9 : "All truth passes through three stages: it is ridiculed, violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Nietzsche
- Schopenhauer
- Voltaire
- Hegel
Question 10 : "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Lao Tzu
- Sun Tzu
- Confucius
- Mencius
Question 11 : "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Seneca
- Marcus Aurelius
- Epictetus
- Cicero
Question 12 : "Philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Engels
- Marx
- Proudhon
- Bakunin
Question 13 : "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." — Who is the author?
Possible answers:
- Heidegger
- Jaspers
- Marcel
- Kierkegaard
Question 14 : "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." — Who concluded his Tractatus with this sentence?
Possible answers:
- Russell
- Carnap
- Wittgenstein
- Popper
Question 15 : "Language is the house of being." — Who is the author of this formulation?
Possible answers:
- Heidegger
- Husserl
- Sartre
- Gadamer
