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  2. Cogito, ergo sum - Wikipedia

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    The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", [a] is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method, so as to reach a wider audience than Latin would have allowed. [1]

  3. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information war poster (1941–1945). "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1]

  4. Pascal's wager - Wikipedia

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    The wise decision is to wager that God exists, since "If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing", meaning one can gain eternal life if God exists, but if not, one will be no worse off in death than if one had not believed. On the other hand, if you bet against God, win or lose, you either gain nothing or lose everything.

  5. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb; Marriages are made in heaven [16] [17] [18] Marry in haste, repent at leisure; Memory is the treasure of the mind; Men are blind in their own cause – Heywood Broun (1888–1939), American journalist; Men get spoiled by staying, women get spoiled by wandering; Might is right; Might makes right

  6. Gorgias (dialogue) - Wikipedia

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    Gorgias (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr ɡ i ə s /; [1] Greek: Γοργίας [ɡorɡíaːs]) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. The dialogue depicts a conversation between Socrates and a small group at a dinner gathering.

  7. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense - Wikipedia

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    [4] Although all concepts are metaphors invented by humans (created by common agreement to facilitate ease of communication), writes Nietzsche, human beings forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are "true" and do correspond to reality. [4] Thus Nietzsche argues that "truth" is actually:

  8. Argumentum ad populum - Wikipedia

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    Argumentum ad populum is a type of informal fallacy, [1] [14] specifically a fallacy of relevance, [15] [16] and is similar to an argument from authority (argumentum ad verecundiam).

  9. The customer is always right - Wikipedia

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    "The customer is always right" is a motto or slogan which exhorts service staff to give a high priority to customer satisfaction. It was popularised by pioneering and successful retailers such as Harry Gordon Selfridge , John Wanamaker and Marshall Field .