市面上不時可以看到有人引用哲學家的話，但是用法不見得正確（或者說，符合學界的理解），甚至有時候會看到一整組的哲學家銘言錄。
我覺得這種銘言有市場，或許我們可以一起整理一篇文章，介紹這些銘言在學術上的意義。
World Philosophy Day 2014: Best Philosophical Quotes to Celebrate Human Thought 這篇文章裡面就有一些，或許可以從這些開始：
“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” - Simone de Beauvoir
“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” –
Thomas Hobbes
“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does
it make a sound?” – Bishop George Berkeley
“One cannot step twice in the same river” – Heraclitus
“Man is condemned to be free” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his
pleasures” – Democritus
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,
but their inward significance” - Aristotle
“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce” - Karl
Marx
“This has always been a man’s world, and none of the reasons that
have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate” - Simone de
Beauvoir
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up
their minds to be good or evil” - Hannah Arendt
