This meme is the biggest insult in philosophy I have ever seen. This is not a meme — it’s historical malpractice.

Socrates : Never Surrendered. He had friends to bail him out. He refused. He mocked the jury. He stood firm.

Aristotle: Yes, he was indeed playing by the rules of the powerful and remained relevant.

Diogenes: A cynic. One with nature. But not the nature as the meme\'s creator thought.

The line about accepting fate is completely wrong.

1. Nietzsche absolutely does not \"accept fate\" in the passive sense.
2. Preached Amor Fati (\"love of fate\") — but this isn\'t resignation. It’s a defiant embrace of your circumstances as fuel for power.
3. For Nietzsche, fate is a forge. You bend it. You carve yourself through it, not under it.
4. \"Become who you are.\"

1. René Descartes

If anything, he was an opponent of fatalism, believing reason could break it.

Reality: Father of rationalism.

1. Sought certainty through doubt.
2. Didn\'t accept fate — he tried to conquer uncertainty with reason.
3. Saw the body as mechanical, the soul as divine, and truth as knowable through method.
4. David Hume

Reality: Empirical skeptic.

1. Admitted we don’t really “know” cause and effect, only observe patterns.
2. But this is not fatalism — it’s epistemic humility.
3. He acknowledges limits but encourages inquiry, not surrender.
4. John Stuart Mill

Reality: Utilitarian liberal.

1. Believed in human progress, education, reform.
2. Accepted pain and imperfection, but sought to improve society.
3. Fate, for Mill, was something to navigate around, not accept passively.
4. Simone de Beauvoir

Reality: Existentialist rebel.

1. Saw life as ambiguous, fate as a cultural weapon used to subjugate women.
2. Radically rejected passive fate.
3. Called for women to break societal myths and define their own essence.

Conclusion: Always doubt, always challenge. Never accept anything.