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Use the quotes to provide students with a quick access point into the human sciences, prompt discussions and debates in your classroom, and introduce a range of influential thinkers.

We've arranged these quotes in a way that relates to our 5 Big Question framework for TOK, which is our favoured way of structuring the course. There are other ways to structure TOK, such as the Classic structure.

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Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

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Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

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Henri Poincare

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Sociology exacts it.

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Sociology exacts it.

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Nadine Gordimer

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

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Mason Cooley

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

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C. Wright Mills

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Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

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Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

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Stephen Hawking

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Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

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Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

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Steven Pinker

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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Will Durant

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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W. H. Auden

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If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

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If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

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James Reston

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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of psychiatrists couch.

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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of psychiatrists couch.

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Marshall McLuhan

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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

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William Feather

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Philosophy is common sense with big words.

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Philosophy is common sense with big words.

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James Madison

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

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Jim Rohn

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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

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Margaret Mead

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My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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John Lennon

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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

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Zygmunt Bauman

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‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

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‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

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Dag Hammarskjold

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

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Ruth Benedict

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My students often ask me, 'What is Sociology?'. And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.

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My students often ask me, 'What is Sociology?'. And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.

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Sam Richards

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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

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Paul Valery

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The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

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The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

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George Henry Lewes

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Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That’s why economics is not the dismal science, it’s no science at all.

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Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That’s why economics is not the dismal science, it’s no science at all.

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Julian Baggini

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

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James Mark Baldwin

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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Plato

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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Kofi Annan

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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

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Pierre Bourdieu

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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

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John Kenneth Galbraith