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Moral Thinkers and Philosophers

16 questions

2025

  1. 2025 · GS4 · 10 marksGiven below is the quotation of a great thinker. What does this quotations convey to you in the present context? “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” – William James
  2. 2025 · GS4 · 10 marksGiven below is the quotation of a great thinker. What does this quotations convey to you in the present context? “The strength of a society is not in its laws, but in the morality of its people.” – Swami Vivekananda
  3. 2025 · GS4 · 10 marksGiven below is the quotation of a great thinker. What does this quotations convey to you in the present context? “Those who in trouble untroubled are, Will trouble trouble itself.” – Thiruvalluvar

2024

  1. 2024 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation convey to you in present context “In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” — Immanuel Kant
  2. 2024 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation convey to you in present context “Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.” — Swami Vivekananda

2023

  1. 2023 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation convey to you in present context “Do not hate anybody, because that hatred that comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.” – Swami Vivekananda

2021

  1. 2021 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation mean to you “Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.” -Swami Vivekananda
  2. 2021 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation mean to you “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, it is better for us all.” -Erik Erikson

2020

  1. 2020 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation mean to you “A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.” – Socrates

2019

  1. 2019 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation mean to you “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

2018

  1. 2018 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation mean to you in the present context “Falsehood takes the place of truth when it results in unblemished common good.” — Tirukkural
  2. 2018 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation mean to you in the present context “The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject anything, is not whether it has any evil in it; but whether it has more evil than good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgement of the preponderance between them is continually demanded. ”Abraham Lincoln

2016

  1. 2016 · GS4 · 10 marks“Corruption causes misuse of government treasury, administrative inefficiency and obstruction in the path of national development.” Discuss Kautilya’s views.
  2. 2016 · GS4 · 10 marksAnalyse John rawls’s concept of social justice in the Indian Context.

2013

  1. 2013 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation mean to you in present context “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.”—Aristotle.
  2. 2013 · GS4 · 10 marksWhat does this quotation mean to you in present context “Nearly all men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”—Abraham Lincoln.