The most famous sayings of philosophers:

I know that I know nothing, and any knowledge is knowledge of my ignorance (Socrates).

Know thyself (Socrates).

You cannot enter the same river twice... (Heraclides).

Nothing beyond measure (Heraclides).

Everything flows, everything changes... (Heraclides).

Secret harmony is stronger than obvious (Heraclides).

Much knowledge does not teach intelligence. (Heraclides).

The body is not the shackles of the spirit, a lot of things are worthy of surprise and study... (Aristotle).

Wisdom is worthy of the gods; man can only strive for it (Pythagoras).

Harmony is the union of the heterogeneous and the agreement of the discordant (Pythagoras or Philolaus?).

Lies do not enter into numbers (Pythagoras or Philolaus?).

The One is God. God is thought (Xenophanes).

Being exists and cannot but exist, non-existence does not exist and cannot exist anywhere or in any way (Parmenides).

the path of truth is the path of reason, the path of error is the inevitably given feelings (Parmenides).

thing, object, being, thinking - one (Parmenides).

Do not strive to know everything, so as not to be ignorant in everything (Democritus).

Slavery is natural and moral... (Democritus).

The sage's pleasure splashes in his soul like a calm sea on the solid shores of reliability (Epicurus).

The ability to live well and die well is one and the same science (Epicurus).

People are not afraid of death. While we are here, she is not there, when she comes, we are no longer there (Epicurus).

Fate leads the one who wants, and drags the one who doesn’t want (the principle of stoicism).

Man is the measure of all things... (Protagoras, skepticism).

The world is not knowable, and a person should not assert anything if he does not know the truth (skepticism).

The one who knows does not speak, the one who speaks does not know. (Lao Tzu. Taoism).

To govern means to correct (Confucius on the power of a good emperor).

Every day you need to live like your last... (Marcus Aurelius).

Knowledge is power! (F. Bacon).

I think, therefore I exist. * Second version: I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I exist (R. Descartes).

Everything is for the better in this world... God created the best of worlds... (Leibniz).

Genius creates like nature itself (E. Kant).

Concepts without sensations are empty, sensations without concepts are blind (Kant.)

There is nothing in the mind that would not have previously been in the senses (J. Locke).

One should not make hasty conclusions. One should accept as truth only what is given to the mind clearly and distinctly and does not raise any doubts (R. Descartes).

One should not multiply existing things without necessity (W. Occom).

...only living cultures die (O. Spengler)

Pico della Mirandola. -...the wonders of the human spirit surpass the [miracles] of heaven... On earth there is nothing greater than man, and in man there is nothing greater than his mind and soul. To rise above them means to rise above the heavens...

The study of nature is the comprehension of God (N. Kuzansky).

The end justifies the means (Nicolo Machiavelli or Thomas Hobbes).

Unhappy is the one whose actions are in discord with time (N. Machiavelli).

The new series of human wisdom features clever quotes and sayings from philosophers on a variety of topics:

I can't be faithful to a flag if I don't know whose hands it is in. Peter Ustinov

Without ideals, that is, without at least somewhat defined desires for the best, no good reality can ever emerge. Dostoevsky F. M.

Miracles are where people believe in them, and the more people believe in them, the more often they happen. Denis Diderot

Diseases of the mind are more destructive and more common than diseases of the body. Cicero

Whatever they think of you, do what you think is fair. Pythagoras

In politics, as in grammar, the mistake that everyone makes is proclaimed the rule. Andre Malraux

A man of real character is one who sets meaningful goals for himself and firmly adheres to them, since his individuality would lose all its existence if he were forced to abandon them. Hegel G.

Believing the oaths of a traitor is the same as believing the piety of the devil. Elizabeth I

The brave man avoids danger, but the coward, reckless and defenseless, rushes towards the abyss, which he does not notice because of fear; so the latter rushes towards misfortune, which, perhaps, was not intended for him. Denis Diderot

We begin to value water no sooner than the well dries up. Thomas Fuller

A person's intelligence can be determined by the care with which he considers the future and the outcome of a matter. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It’s not so bad: we weren’t sold, we were given away for nothing. Karel Capek

A serious illness is initially easy to cure, but difficult to recognize; when it intensifies, it is easy to recognize, but difficult to cure. Machiavelli

You may not be involved in politics, but politics is still involved with you. Charles Montalembert

The more dangerous enemy is the one who pretends to be your friend. Grigory Skovoroda

The main art of a speaker is not to let the art be noticed. Quintilian

Those who believe that money can do anything can actually do anything for the sake of money. George Saville Halifax

Pride from the knowledge that you are entrusted with a secret is the main reason for disclosing it. Samuel Johnson

Money is a good servant, but a bad master. Friedrich Engels

Modesty is a virtue; modesty is a vice. Thomas Fuller

Virtue is manifested in actions and does not need either an abundance of words or an abundance of knowledge. Antisthenes

The most dangerous thing in war is to underestimate the enemy and rest in the belief that we are stronger. V.I.Lenin

The only criterion of truth is experience. Leonardo da Vinci

It's not about predicting the future, but about creating it. Denis de Rougemont

If a people rebels, it is not from the desire to take what belongs to others, but from the inability to preserve what is theirs. Edmund Burke

Delay is like death. Peter I

If you are considered a camel, spit on everyone. Vladimir Goloborodko

The righteous perish in their righteousness, but the wicked endure in their wickedness. Ecclesiastes

There are people who believe that everything that is done with a reasonable appearance is reasonable. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To reproach a person for his own benefit does not mean to blaspheme, but to admonish him. Isocrates

Women don't follow bad advice, they get ahead of it. Wanda Blonska

Think how difficult it is to change yourself, and you will understand how insignificant your ability to change others is. Voltaire

Knowledge is such a valuable thing that there is no shame in obtaining it from any source. Thomas Aquinas

Misguided charity is not only weakness, but borders on injustice and is very harmful to society because it encourages vice. Henry Fielding

Truth loves criticism, it only benefits from it; lies are afraid of criticism, because they lose from it. Denis Diderot

They condemn what they do not understand. Quintilian

As soon as a fool praises us, he no longer seems so stupid to us. F. La Rochefoucauld

He walked over the corpses of those heading towards the goal. Stanislav Jerzy Lec

When there is nothing to be proud of in the present, they boast about yesterday’s merits. Cicero

One of the conditions for recovery is the desire to get well. Seneca

Who is wise? The one who learns from everyone... Who is the hero? The one who controls his passions. Ben Zoma

The danger of deceiving people is that in the end you begin to deceive yourself. Eleonora Duse

He who shows pity for the enemy is merciless towards himself. George Saville Halifax

No one clever man I never considered it possible to trust a traitor. Cicero

It's better not to start than to stop halfway. Seneca

Indecision is worse than unsuccessful attempt; Water spoils less when it flows than when it stands. Roxas

Better an obvious enemy than a vile flatterer and hypocrite; This is such a disgrace to humanity. Peter I

Ignorance is a bad way to get rid of trouble. Seneca

Love is a theorem that must be proven every day. Aristotle

You can't always remain a hero, but you can always remain human. Goethe

The minority is always wrong - at first. Herbert Procnow

Don't neglect your enemies: they are the first to notice your mistakes. Antisthenes

I don’t care what they say about me behind my back as long as they tell lies about me. Abraham Lincoln

For those who are not affected by either glory or danger, it is in vain to persuade him. Sallust

You can fool some all the time, you can fool everyone some of the time, but you cannot fool everyone all the time. Abraham Lincoln

Men are like dogs, the ones who are most attached are the ones you don't keep on a leash. Wanda Blonska

My job is to tell the truth, not force people to believe it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let us not delude ourselves too much with our victories over nature. For every such victory she takes revenge on us. Friedrich Engels

The measure of justice cannot be a majority of votes. Friedrich Schiller

Ignorance is the night of the mind, a moonless and starless night. Cicero

People of strong and generous character do not change their mood according to their prosperity or their misfortunes. Rene Descartes

The fate of one whom no one envy is unenviable. Aeschylus

The best doctor is the one who knows the uselessness of most drugs. Benjamin Franklin

You cannot preach to people what you deny yourself. Bitter. A. M.

It is better to use medications at the beginning of the disease rather than at the last moment. Publilius Syrus

There is nothing more annoying than seeing a well-spoken word die in the ear of a fool. Montesquieu S.

He who respects himself inspires respect in others. Luc Vauvenargues

Nothing great can come from a corrupt pen. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who asks timidly will ask for refusal. Seneca

Circumstances change, principles never. Honore de Balzac

He who is afraid of attacks on his beliefs doubts them himself. Wendell Phillips

An embittered atheist does not so much not believe in God as dislike him. George Orwell

Slander usually attacks worthy people, just as worms preferentially attack best fruits. Jonathan Swift

Insults are the arguments of the wrong. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

History is a union between the dead, the living and the unborn. Edmund Burke

The answer to the questions that philosophy leaves unanswered is that they must be posed differently. Georg Hegel

Have the courage to use your own mind. Kant, Immanuel

The first cup belongs to thirst, the second to joy, the third to pleasure, the fourth to madness... Anacharsis

A life without challenges is not life. Socrates

Ostentatious simplicity is ostentatious hypocrisy. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some misconceptions that cannot be refuted. It is necessary to impart to the erring mind such knowledge as will enlighten it. Then the delusions will disappear by themselves. Immanuel Kant

A decent person is always a simpleton. Martial

If a person takes care of his own health, then it is difficult to find a doctor who would know better what is beneficial for his health than himself. Socrates

It’s great if we can manage ourselves. Cicero

If you have made a decision, let your hand never waver from now on. As-Samarkandi

The emptiness sucks in. This is why a man is attracted to a woman. Natalie Clifford Barney

If people argue for a long time, this proves that what they are arguing about is not clear to them. Voltaire

Morality always goes hand in hand with politics. If there is no harmony here, then either politicking or dictatorship will be born. Dmitry Volkogonov

Friendship is the golden mean between the desire to please and rudeness. Aristotle

The most durable element international agreements there is still paper left. Peter Ustinov

Great things require tireless persistence. Voltaire

Follow your path and let people say whatever they want. Dante

Even if you lose your point of support, you don’t need to crawl on your belly. Valentin Domil

Happiness does not favor the faint-hearted. Sophocles

What should rise to the very top begins at the very bottom. Publilius Syrus

Endure and stay strong for times to come. Virgil

It's hard to be good. Pittacus

Anyone who moves away from an idea ends up with only sensations. Goethe

Respect yourself if you want to be respected. Baltasar Gracian y Morales

Generally speaking, power does not spoil people, but fools, when they are in power, spoil power. Bernard Shaw to Sarah Bernhardt

Philosophy and medicine have made man the most intelligent of animals, fortune telling and astrology the most insane, superstition and despotism the most unfortunate. Diogenes of Sinope

The word “almost” is very useful when one wants to say something and at the same time say nothing. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A person dies, the matter remains. Lucretius

Great minds set goals for themselves; other people follow their desires. Washington Irving

The louder he spoke of his honesty, the more carefully we counted the tablespoons. BeRalph Emerson

We may be the sons of merchants, but we are the grandsons of prophets. Chaim Weizmann

What has become funny cannot be dangerous. Voltaire

The bliss of the body is health, the bliss of the mind is knowledge. Thales of Miletus

All I know is that I don’t know anything, but others don’t know that either. Socrates

Trouble is for those who are smart but not endowed with a strong character. Nicola Chamfort

interesting statements by philosophers, writers, politicians and other famous people...

In order to wake up, you need to stop looking around and turn your gaze inward. – Carl-Gustav Jung

Man himself invents the boundaries of the world. It can be the size of a street - or it can become endless. – Arthur Schopenhauer

We ourselves come up with impossible things. They are difficult only because we cannot decide to take on them.

Philosophy can easily explain the past and the future, but it gives in to the present.

Life is what philosophers earn their living for, wasting ink on treatises that are of no use to anyone but themselves.

Every doctor is by definition a philosopher. After all, medicine must be supported by wisdom. – Hippocrates

When something new bursts into life, a person turns into a philosopher.

The world is more beautiful than a dream. Tastier than gourmet dishes. Let him in. Fall in love. Maybe there’s only a minute left to live. And you have the last 60 seconds of happiness... - Ray Bradbury

Forward! Don't stop for a moment. Live brightly, walk on the edge, give emotions and get LIFE!

We earn coins to spend them. We're running out of time to get it. And we fight for peace. – Aristotle

Continue reading quotes from philosophers on the following pages:

There are two types of love: one is simple, the other is mutual. Simple - when the loved one does not love the loving one. Then the lover is completely dead. When the beloved responds to love, then the lover, at least, lives in him. There is something amazing about this. Ficino M.

Not to be loved is just failure, not to love is misfortune. – A. Camus

When the one you love is not there, you have to love what is. Corneille Pierre

The girl who laughs is already half won.

The girlfriend's shortcomings escape the attention of the lover. Horace

When you love, you discover such wealth in yourself, so much tenderness, affection, you can’t even believe that you know how to love like that. Chernyshevsky N. G.

All buildings will fall, collapse, and grass will grow on them. Only the building of love is incorruptible, weeds will not grow on it. Hafiz

The moments of meeting and parting are for many the greatest moments in life. – Kozma Prutkov

False love is more likely the result of ignorance, rather than a lack of ability to love. J. Baines.

Love takes on meaning only when it is reciprocated. Leonardo Felice Buscaglia.

There are many cures for love, but there is not a single sure cure. – Francois La Rochefoucauld

Love is the only passion that recognizes neither the past nor the future. Balzac O.

Just as ugliness is an expression of hatred, so beauty is an expression of love. Otto Weininger

Love is in the heart, and therefore desire is impermanent, but love is unchangeable. The desire disappears after it is satisfied; the reason for this is that love comes from the union of souls, and desire - from the union of feelings. Penn William

You cannot love either the one you fear or the one who fears you. Cicero

The source of every error in life is a lack of memory. Otto Weininger

Constancy is the everlasting dream of love. Vauvenargues

Love itself is the law; it is stronger, I swear, than all the rights of earthly people. Any right and any decree Before love is nothing for us. Chaucer J.

Love is an amazing counterfeiter, constantly turning not only coppers into gold, but often gold into coppers. Balzac O.

One should love a friend, remembering that he can become an enemy, and hate an enemy, remembering that he can become a friend. – Sophocles

When we love, we lose sight. Lope de Vega

Deceived love is no longer love. Corneille Pierre

If a woman hates you, it means she loved you, loves you or will love you. – German proverb

Love is like a tree; it grows by itself, takes deep roots into our entire being and often continues to turn green and bloom even on the ruins of our heart. Hugo V.

Philosophy heals the spirit (souls). - Unknown author

A person feels his duty only if he is free. Henri Bergson

Love is the strongest, the holiest, the most unspeakable. Karamzin N. M.

There is no time limit for affection: you can always love as long as your heart is alive. Karamzin N.M.

Love for a woman has great, irreplaceable meaning for us; it is like salt for meat: permeating the heart, it protects it from spoilage. Hugo V.

Love is a theorem that must be proven every day! Archimedes

There is no force in the world more powerful than love. I. Stravinsky.

Equality is the strongest foundation of love. Lessing

Love that is afraid of obstacles is not love. Galsworthy D.

One day you will realize that love heals everything and love is all there is. G. Zukav

The science of good and evil alone constitutes the subject of philosophy. – Seneca (Younger)

Love is a person’s idea of ​​his need for a person to whom he is attracted. – T.Tobbs

Love is not a virtue, love is a weakness that, if necessary, can and should be resisted. Knigge A.F.

Philosophy is the teacher of life. - Unknown author

In love, silence is more valuable than words. It’s good when embarrassment binds our tongue: silence has its own eloquence, which reaches the heart better than any words. How much a lover can say to his beloved when he is silent in confusion, and how much intelligence he reveals at the same time. Pascal Blaise

The woman does not want people to talk about her love affairs, but she wants everyone to know that she is loved. – Andre Maurois

The love of wisdom (the science of wisdom) is called philosophy. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Love is the desire to achieve the friendship of someone who attracts with their beauty. Cicero

Marriage and love have different aspirations: Marriage seeks benefits, love seeks!. Corneille Pierre

Love is blind, and it can blind a person so that the road that seems most reliable to him turns out to be the most slippery. Navarre M.

Love alone is the joy of a cold life, Love alone is the torment of hearts: It gives only one joyful moment, And there is no end in sight to sorrows. Pushkin A. S.

Love is the beginning and end of our existence. Without love there is no life. That is why love is something that a wise person bows to. Confucius

Love is a disease of tenderness. – A. Kruglov

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, takes deep roots into our entire being and often continues to turn green and bloom even on the ruins of our heart. – V. Hugo

No one can understand what it is real love, until he has been married for a quarter of a century. Mark Twain

Evolution is a continuously renewed creativity. Henri Bergson

Everything that is not colored by love remains colorless. – G.Hauptmann

Oh, how murderously we love, How in the violent blindness of passions We most certainly destroy that which is dear to our hearts! Tyutchev F. I.

Love should not ask and should not demand, love should have the power to be confident in itself. Then it is not something that attracts her, but she herself attracts. Hesse.

We fight to live in peace. Aristotle

A lover is always ready to believe in the reality of what he fears. Ovid

Love! This is the most sublime and victorious of all passions! But her all-conquering power lies in boundless generosity, in almost supersensible selflessness. Heine G.

To love means to admit that your loved one is right when he is wrong. – Sh. Peguy

In jealousy there is more love for oneself than for another. La Rochefoucauld.

Love according to different characters burns differently. In a lion, a burning and bloodthirsty flame is expressed in a roar, in arrogant souls - in disdain, in gentle souls - in tears and despondency. Helvetius K.

Every obstacle to love only strengthens it. Shakespeare W.

A lovers' quarrel is a renewal of love. Terence

To love means to stop comparing. – Grasse

Live first, and then philosophize.

Time strengthens friendship, but weakens love. – LaBruyère

Philosophy and medicine have made man the most intelligent of animals, fortune telling and astrology the most insane, superstition and despotism the most unfortunate. – D. Sinopsky

Love is not tarnished by friendship. The end is the end. – Remarque

Triumph over oneself is the crown of philosophy. – Diogenes of Sinope

Love is the tendency to find pleasure in the goodness, perfection, and happiness of another person. Leibniz G.

Those who don't have one talk the most about the future. Francis Bacon

Love is the only one of all spheres of human communication that represents an amazing interweaving of spiritual and physical pleasure, creating a feeling of life being filled with meaning and happiness. S. Ilyina.

This is the law of lovers: They are all brothers to each other. Rustaveli Sh.

The only thing that matters at the end of our time on earth is how much we loved, what was the quality of our love. Richard Bach.

Isn't it a delusion to seek peace in love? After all, there is no cure for love, the elders tell us. Hafiz

Love is like a sticky disease: the more you are afraid of it, the sooner you will catch it. – Chamfort

Most of all people love to be loved.

Nothing strengthens love like insurmountable obstacles. Lope de Vega

Seeking variety in love is a sign of powerlessness. Balzac O.

Man has an eternal, elevating need to love. France A.

It is much easier to grieve for someone you love than to live with someone you hate. Labruyère J.

Marital love multiplies the human race; friendly love perfects it. – Francis Bacon

To love is to find your own happiness in the happiness of another. Leibniz G.

Love is like the sea. Its breadth knows no shores. Give her all your blood and soul: there is no other measure here. Hafiz

A person is ready to do a lot to awaken love, but decide to do anything to arouse envy.

Pythagoras was the first to give philosophy its name. – Apuleius

Love hurts even the gods. Petronius

Love is characteristic only of a sane person. Epictetus

Bring philosophy down to earth. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

The philosophy of each specialty is based on the connection of the latter with other specialties, at the points of contact of which it must be sought. Henry Thomas Buckle

A woman knows the meaning of love, and a man knows its price. – Marty Larney

It is easier for a woman to fall in love than to confess her love. And it’s easier for a man to confess than to fall in love. – Konstantin Melikhan

Love is the lamp that illuminates the Universe; without the light of love, the earth would turn into a barren desert, and man would turn into a handful of dust. M. Braddon

In love there is despotism and slavery. And the most despotic is female love, which demands everything for itself! Berdyaev N. A.

This is how nature works: nothing strengthens love for a person more than the fear of losing him. Pliny the Younger

The more a person shows love, the more more people love him. And the more he is loved, the easier it is for him to love others. – L.N. Tolstoy

Love grows from waiting for a long time and quickly fades, having quickly received its reward. Menander

He who doesn’t love anyone himself, it seems to me, no one loves him either. Democritus

Love conquers everything, let us submit to its power. Virgil

Love, like fire, goes out without food. – M.Yu. Lermontov

I know for sure that love will pass, When two hearts are separated by the sea. Lope de Vega

Love should not fog, but refresh, not darken, but brighten thoughts, since it should nest in the heart and mind of a person, and not serve only as fun for external feelings that generate only passion. Milton John

When you love, you want to do something in the name of love. I want to sacrifice myself. I want to serve. Hemingway E.

The truth is that there is only one highest value - love. Helen Hayes.

For a person who loves only himself, the most intolerable thing is to be left alone with himself. Pascal Blaise

Love is abundant in both honey and gall. Plautus

Joy and happiness are the children of love, but love itself, like strength, is patience and pity. Prishvin M. M.

Everything is for the best in this best of all worlds. Voltaire

When love comes, the soul is filled with unearthly bliss. Do you know why? Do you know why this feeling of great happiness? Only because we imagine that the end of loneliness has come. Maupassant G.

If you seek to solve any problem, do it with love. You will understand that the cause of your problem is a lack of love, for this is the cause of all problems. Ken Carey.

He who truly loves is not jealous. The main essence of love is trust. Take away trust from love - you take away from it the consciousness of its own strength and duration, all of its bright side, and therefore all of its greatness. – Anna Stahl

Love is a priceless gift. This is the only thing we can give and yet you still have it. L. Tolstoy.

Love is harder to break than hordes of enemies. Racine Jean

For love there is no yesterday, love does not think about tomorrow. She greedily reaches out to the present day, but she needs this whole day, unlimited, unclouded. Heine G.

Old love is not forgotten. Petronius

You can't pick roses without being pricked by thorns. – Ferdowsi

Love is a competition between a man and a woman to bring each other as much happiness as possible. – Stendhal

Black suspicions cannot coexist with strong love. Abelard Pierre

He who did not know love was as if he had not lived. Moliere

Friendship often ends in love, but love rarely ends in friendship. – C. Colton

Philosophy is always considered a lamp for all sciences, a means for accomplishing every task, a support for all institutions... - Arthashastra

There are no Big Things without Big Difficulties. Voltaire

Neither mind, nor heart, nor soul are worth a penny in love. Ronsard P.

Love is too great a feeling to be only a personal, intimate matter for everyone! Shaw B.

If there was no one to love, I would fall in love with a doorknob. – Pablo Picasso

True love cannot speak, because true love is expressed in deeds rather than in words. Shakespeare W.

Others think that old love should be knocked out new love like a wedge with a wedge. Cicero

Love cannot be harmful, but if only it was love, and not the wolf of selfishness in the sheep's clothing of love... Tolstoy L.N.

Dying from love means living it. Hugo V.

Everyone's love is the same. Virgil

Love and hunger rule the world. – Schiller

Love cannot be cured with herbs. Ovid

Philosophy is the mother of all sciences. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

There is no such nonsense that some philosopher has not taught. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

What should guide people who want to live their lives flawlessly, no relatives, no honors, no wealth, and indeed nothing in the world can teach them better than love. Plato.

The first sign of love: in men - timidity, in women - courage. Hugo V.

There must be love in life - one great love in a lifetime, this justifies the causeless attacks of despair to which we are subject. Albert Camus.

Love destroys death and turns it into an empty ghost; it turns life from nonsense into something meaningful and makes happiness out of misfortune. Tolstoy L. N.

The first sign of love: in men - timidity, in women - courage. – V. Hugo

In love, longing competes with joy. Publius

The forces of love are great, disposing those who love to difficult feats and enduring extreme, unexpected dangers. Boccaccio D.

You must always live in love with something inaccessible to you. A person becomes taller by stretching upward. M. Gorky.

Do we have the power to fall in love or not to fall in love? And is it that, having fallen in love, we have the power to act as if it had not happened? Diderot D.

Truth cannot contradict truth. Giordano Bruno

Like a fire that easily flares up in reeds, straw or hare's hair, but quickly goes out if it does not find other food, love blazes brightly with blooming youth and physical attractiveness, but will soon fade away if it is not nourished by the spiritual virtues and good character of young spouses . Plutarch

The one deceived in love knows no mercy. Corneille Pierre

There is love that prevents a person from living. Gorky M.

Love, love, when you take possession of us, we can say: forgive us, prudence! Lafontaine

The greatest joy in a person’s life is to be loved, but no less so is to love oneself. Pliny the Younger

Only those who have stopped loving are restrained. Corneille Pierre

If the choice in love were decided only by will and reason, then love would not be a feeling and passion. The presence of an element of spontaneity is visible in the most rational love, because from several equally worthy persons only one is chosen, and this choice is based on the involuntary attraction of the heart. Belinsky V.

Philosophy is the medicine of the soul. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Anyone who loves solitude, either - wild animal, or - Lord God. Francis Bacon

Choose who you will love. Cicero

Seeing the increasing success of automobile transport, the philosopher clutches his burdened brow in horror and asks himself, not without alarm: when will all our vehicles be driven mechanically with the help of steam, gasoline, electricity, compressed air, etc., etc. What will happen to the horses then?<...>I’m afraid that from now on the horse will have no choice but to indulge in drunkenness and a thousand other, even more terrible and repulsive vices.

Aristippus

Philosophers are superior to other people in that if laws are destroyed, philosophers will still live.

Aristotle

This is what philosophy taught me: I act one way or another not on someone’s orders, but only out of fear of the law.

Nikolay Berdyaev

There is a prophetic element in philosophy... A real, called philosopher wants not only knowledge of the world, but also change, improvement, and rebirth of the world. It cannot be otherwise if philosophy is, first of all, the doctrine of meaning human existence, about human destiny.

One must choose between two philosophies - a philosophy that recognizes the primacy of being over freedom, and a philosophy that recognizes the primacy of freedom over being.

The knowledge of a philosopher inevitably teaches about the ways of realizing meaning. Philosophers have sometimes sunk to crude empiricism and materialism, but a true philosopher has a taste for the otherworldly, for transcending beyond the world; he is not content with this-worldly things. Philosophy has always been a breakthrough from the meaningless, empirical world that coerces and rapes us from all sides to the world of meaning, to the otherworldly world.

Philosophy can exist only if philosophical intuition is recognized. And every significant and genuine philosopher has his own original intuition. Neither the dogmas of religion nor the truths of science can replace this intuition.

Philosophy can have a purifying significance for religion, it can free it from fusion with elements of a non-religious nature, not related to revelation, elements of social origin that perpetuate backward forms of knowledge, as well as backward social forms.

Philosophy is the school of love for truth.

Man cannot be eliminated from philosophy. The knowing philosopher is immersed in being and exists before the knowledge of being and existence, and the quality of his knowledge depends on this. He cognizes being because he himself is being.

The philosophy of each specialty is based on the connection of the latter with other specialties, at the points of contact of which it must be sought.

Pierre Buast

Philosophy cures weaknesses of the heart, but never cures illnesses of the mind.

Francis Bacon

The surface in philosophy inclines the human mind towards atheism, the depth - towards religion.

Vladimir Vernadsky

Every philosophical system certainly reflects the mood of the soul of its creator.

Vauvenargues

Clarity is the politeness of philosophy.

Voltaire

When the listener does not understand the speaker, and the speaker does not know what he means, this is philosophy.

Pierre Gassendi

Since there can be nothing more beautiful... than the achievement of truth, then obviously it is worth pursuing philosophy, which is the search for truth.

Georg Hegel

Courage towards truth is the first condition of philosophical research.

The answer to the questions that philosophy leaves unanswered is that they must be posed differently.

Rene Descartes

Philosophy provides a means of speaking truthfully about all sorts of things and surprising the less knowledgeable.

Philosophy (insofar as it extends to everything accessible to human knowledge) alone distinguishes us from savages and barbarians, and each nation is the more civilized and educated the better it philosophizes; therefore, there is no greater benefit for the state than to have true philosophers.

First of all, I would like to find out what philosophy is. The word "philosophy" signifies the practice of wisdom, and that by wisdom is meant not only prudence in affairs, but also a perfect knowledge of all that a man can know; this same knowledge that guides life, serves the preservation of health, as well as discoveries in all sciences.

Gilles Deleuze

Philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, making concepts.

William James

A philosopher can only be relied upon to do one thing - to criticize other philosophers.

Diogenes of Sinope

Triumph over oneself is the crown of philosophy.

Karl Marx

It’s good if your conscience and your philosophy coexist peacefully with each other.

Boris Krieger

The basic questions of philosophy sound much more interesting than the answers to them.

Modern philosophy is a mockery of man and his never-found happiness.

Philosophers have long forgotten that philosophy is necessary for a person and in itself is of no value if a person cannot, with its help, somehow make his life easier.

Lao Tzu

Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things.

From the imperfect comes the whole. From crooked - straight. From deep - smooth. From old - new.

Who knows, doesn't say. Whoever speaks does not know.

The “holy man” who rules the country tries to prevent the wise from daring to do anything. When everyone becomes inactive, then (on earth) there will be complete peace.

That which contracts expands; that which weakens is strengthened; what is destroyed is restored.

Thirty spokes form the wheel of the cart, but only the emptiness between them makes movement possible. They make a jug out of clay, but always use the emptiness of the jug..., they break through doors and windows, but only their emptiness gives the room life and light. And so it is in everything, because what exists is achievement and benefit, but only what does not exist provides the possibility of both benefit and achievement.

Francois VI de La Rochefoucauld

Philosophy triumphs over the sorrows of the past and future, but the sorrows of the present triumph over philosophy.

Georg Lichtenberg

God created man in his own image, the Bible says. Philosophers do the opposite: they create God in their own image.

Henry Mencken

All philosophy essentially boils down to one philosopher trying to prove that all other philosophers are donkeys. Usually he succeeds; Moreover, he convincingly proves that he himself is an ass.

Philosophy almost always tries to prove the incredible by appealing to the incomprehensible.

Michel de Montaigne

Philosophers argue about nothing so passionately and so bitterly as about what constitutes the highest good of man; according to Varro's calculations, there were two hundred and eighty-eight schools dealing with this issue<...>Some say that our highest good consists in virtue; others - that in pleasure, others - in following nature; some find it in science, some in the absence of suffering, and some in not succumbing to appearances...

Yuri Moroz

Everyone has philosophy, even those who do not know this word.

Andre Maurois

It's hard to come up with ideas and easy to come up with phrases; This explains the success of the philosophers.

Arnold Matthew

The power of a philosopher over the world is not in metaphysical conclusions, but in the higher sense thanks to which he derived these conclusions.

Philosophy is not the handmaiden of theology, and theology is not a science, but a complex of propositions interconnected not by rational consistency, but by the cementing power of faith...

Louis Pasteur

There is more philosophy in a bottle of wine than in all the books in the world.

Francesco Patrizi

Philosophy is the study of wisdom.

Plato

Amazement is the beginning of philosophy.

Of the gods, none is engaged in philosophy and does not want to become wise, since the gods are already wise; and in general, one who is wise does not strive for wisdom. But again, the ignorant also do not engage in philosophy and do not want to become wise.

Pierre Proudhon

Philosophy does not recognize any happiness other than itself; happiness, in turn, does not recognize any philosophy other than itself; Thus, both the philosopher is happy, and the happy man considers himself a philosopher.

Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

David Risko

Philosophy is the result of a thought from a conversation thought out by the brain...

Erik Satie

One of the stupidest jokes that humanity has ever encountered, I think, resulted in the Great Flood. It is easy to observe the extent to which this joke was obscene and inhumane, even in its era. It is also easy to state that not only did it not prove anything to anyone, but that even world Philosophy did not improve in any way from it.

Lucius Seneca

The science of good and evil alone constitutes the subject of philosophy.

Socrates

As long as I have the breath and the ability, I will not stop philosophizing.

Vladimir Solovyov

To the question what does philosophy do? - we answer: it makes a person - a person.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophy teaches us to be equanimous about the failures of others.

Richard Feynman

The time will come when everything will become known or further search will turn out to be very tedious, and then the heated debates on the main issues of philosophy and physics will naturally fall silent and the concern for a thorough substantiation of all those principles that we discussed in these lectures will disappear. The time will come for the philosophers who always stood on the sidelines making stupid remarks.

Michel Foucault

Philosophy is a set of principles and practices that one can have at one's disposal or make available to others in order to care for oneself and others as one should do.

Martin Heidegger

Philosophy, metaphysics are nostalgia, the desire to be at home everywhere.

Aldous Huxley

Philosophy is the search for dubious reasons to support what you instinctively believe.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

Any two philosophers can tell each other everything they know in two hours.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Culture of the mind is philosophy.

There is no such nonsense that some philosopher has not taught.

O philosophy, leader of life!... You gave birth to cities, you gathered scattered people into the community of life.

Philosophy is the medicine of the soul.

Lev Shestov

The task of philosophy is not to calm people down, but to confuse people.

Philosophy is the knowledge of the true essence of our world, in which we exist and which exists in us - that knowledge of the world in general, the light of which, once perceived, then illuminates everything individual, no matter what everyone encounters in life, and opens its inner meaning.

Epictetus

People are happy to find an excuse for their misdeeds, while philosophy teaches not to extend even a finger without thinking.

Epicurus of Samos

In a philosophical discussion, the loser gains more in the sense that he increases knowledge.

The words of that philosopher are empty, with which no human suffering can be cured. Just as medicine is of no use if it does not expel disease from the body, so is philosophy if it does not expel disease from the soul.

David Hume

Not every person can be a philosopher, just as not every philosopher can remain a person.

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A truly great philosopher is one who does not abuse philosophy.

The word philosophy comes from two Greek words: phileo - “love”, and sophia - “wisdom”. It is a form of knowledge of the world. Its main tasks have always included the study of the laws of the whole world and society, as an integral part of it, the process of cognition itself, as well as the understanding of moral values, questions about life, freedom, love and other concepts that have puzzled more than one generation of people. Philosophical statements about life and its components have reached us: love, justice, good and evil, freedom, religion of the most prominent representatives of human society. In essence, philosophy is not so much a science, it is rather a worldview as one or another person sees the world.

About philosophical statements

Almost every person engages in philosophy in life, asking themselves questions and answering them to the best of their education, life experience, practical skills, and other things. If there is not enough experience and knowledge, then a person turns to the wisdom of people who have achieved certain achievements.

Such people are scientists, writers, outstanding public figures with certain knowledge and experience. They leave behind a legacy in the form of works, recorded thoughts, works from which people have extracted the most valuable philosophical statements, which often become their mottos and guidelines for life.

A person striving for certain achievements is necessarily inquisitive, tries to develop, improve, fully understanding that experience and knowledge are worth a lot, they make a person wise.

Life is purpose and action

Every person has thought about the meaning of life and how to live it. The writer J. London, known for his works filled with the power of spirit, said that the purpose of man is to live, not to exist. The concept of “life” includes not just living, providing for basic needs, but also something else, without which a person will not be happy, satisfied with fate, satisfied with the life he has lived, and will not find meaning in it.

To live, you need a goal - for what it is being done. It is well known that life without a goal is a waste of time. According to V. Belinsky, without a set goal there is no action, without interests there can be no goal, and without action there is no life itself.

Philosophical statements about the life of the ancient Greek thinker Aristotle contain the rule that the good of a person, to which he strives, depends on compliance with two conditions: the correctly set final goal of any activity and finding the right remedy which will lead him to this goal.

About the meaning of life

According to Freud, the question of the meaning of life has been asked by people countless times, but never has a satisfactory answer been given. This is partly because each person is different. He determines the meaning of life for himself. Therefore, many thinkers see it differently. It’s interesting that for most people, the meaning is to achieve certain goals that everyone sets for themselves in life. As the German philosopher W. Humboldt wrote, half the success in achieving a goal is the persistent pursuit of it.

Reading philosophical statements about the meaning of life, you understand that each of them is often the result of not only reflection, but also life experience. The German poet and philosopher F. Schiller wrote that a person grows as long as his goals grow. As soon as he comes to terms with everyday life and is satisfied with the results achieved, his growth as a person stops. Simple dreams lead nowhere. Honore de Balzac noted that to achieve your goal, you must first of all go.

So the great Russian writer M. Gorky sees the meaning in life, first of all, in the beauty and strength of striving for goals, he notes that every moment of life should have its own goal. You need to walk without stopping and without being distracted by obstacles and trifles. On this occasion, F. M. Dostoevsky wrote that if, while walking towards a goal, you stop in order to throw stones at all the dogs barking at you, then you will never reach it.

Statements about freedom

The most interesting and controversial are philosophical statements about freedom, because it is this important and complex concept that has worried thinkers and philosophers for many centuries. Freedom was and remains a mystery, since the concept carries the most unexpected content, which changes over time and depends on various factors. Hegel has such words about the idea of ​​freedom that it is uncertain, multifaceted, and subject to great misunderstandings, which cannot be said about other philosophical concepts.

Philosophical statements on this matter vary. Justinian, the Byzantine emperor, defined freedom in terms of politician and the ruler as the natural ability of a person to do whatever he wants, if force and right do not prohibit it. The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus considered a free person to be a person who fears no one and does not hope for anything. B. Shaw has a slightly different opinion. He presented freedom as a responsibility that everyone fears.

Philosophical concept of justice

In philosophy, it is customary to distinguish between two concepts of justice. The first is fairness of law, or, in other words, procedural justice. In this case, it is achieved through the correct functioning of the mechanism of the law. It is here that justice is a logical, one might say, mechanical assessment, according to the fixed provisions of the law. But is it always fair? In the second concept of justice, there is an appeal to higher values ​​that are not reflected in the law and are called moral court.

It is this concept that introduces some confusion into the logic of justice of the law, which is not always consistent with morality. Well-known philosophical statements of wise thinkers speak about this. Plato also said that in many states it is believed that justice is what is necessary for the ruling power, which is presented by people and is not always consistent with the highest values. Or justice is perceived as the decision of the majority, which, according to I. Schiller, cannot be its measure.

The law does not always correspond to divine concepts of justice. On this occasion, T. Jefferson said that when he thinks that the Lord is justice, he is seized with fear for his country.

Religion in human life and philosophy

The philosophy of religion and its significance in human life belongs to a number of the most important philosophical disciplines; it is often separated into a separate part, as religious philosophy. It is aimed at knowledge of religion. Its appearance is associated with religious and mythological culture, since man explored not only external life, but also internal - spiritual life.

The philosophical statements of most thinkers confirm this. As F. Bacon said, with a superficial study of philosophy, a person tends to deny God; with a deep study of philosophy, a person’s mind turns to religion.

Nikolai Berdyaev argued that when science turns into philosophy, the latter turns into religion. Science cannot answer many questions in life, but religion answers all questions unambiguously.

About the truth in human life

Philosophy of life is impossible without truth, which goes back to ancient times. The goal of any knowledge is truth, but philosophy, in addition to this, explores it as an object. What is truth? All famous philosophers thought about such a concept as “truth”. Plato believed that when a person says about things what is true, this is the truth, otherwise he is lying. From the principle of what is affirmed by thought, that is, in reality, the concept of philosophy was developed. I. Kant introduced into it the concept of “adequacy” - the agreement of thinking with itself. In other words, an adequate description of objective reality by a person can be considered truth.

Philosophers about love

Love has been elevated by philosophers, writers, and poets to an omnipotent force that moves and transforms the world. The philosophy of love leads thinkers to thoughts that allow them to comprehend the nature of feeling and evaluate its role in the life of every person. Love personified the path to happiness. Philosophical statements about love reflect the depth of feelings full of passions. This was reflected in the words of G. Heine, who defined it as the most victorious and sublime passion, which, thanks to its all-conquering power, is contained in “... limitless generosity and supersensible unselfishness.”

O. Balzac said that love lives only in the present. This is the only passion that does not want to acknowledge the past and the future. Moreover, it was considered happiness to experience this feeling personally; this is evidenced by numerous philosophical statements about love. A. Camus wrote that not being loved is a failure, and not experiencing love yourself is a disaster.

Great ones about people's happiness

Along with love, which some people associate as the highest point of happiness, famous philosophers have not ignored the concept itself. A rather significant difficulty here is that each person understands happiness differently. Aristotle spoke about various perceptions of happiness, at the same time emphasizing that this concept represents well-being and good life. O. Splenger associated it with kinship of souls and harmony. G. Andersen argued that only by bringing benefit to the world can one be happy.

Philosophers on Wealth

Two poles in human life- wealth and poverty - did not go unnoticed by philosophers. This topic did not leave anyone indifferent. The question of why some people can make money out of nothing, while others, working around the clock, do not have a penny, is relevant at all times. In comprehending the concept of wealth, thinkers made their own conclusions; their interesting philosophical statements suggest that the point here is not in the highest justice, but in the person himself, in his attitude towards himself.

The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus wrote that greed for money is much worse than need, since the growth of desires also leads to an increase in needs. The ancient Greek philosopher B. Bion wrote that misers care about their wealth as if it were their own, but use it little, as if it were someone else’s.

good and evil

The philosophy of life has always paid great attention to the problems of good and evil, trying to help humanity understand their essence and help find ways to achieve good and avoid evil. There were various philosophical schools and movements that in their own way established the relationship between evil and good, sought and determined their own ways of establishing virtue and combating the generation of evil - vices. As with any subject of philosophical research, philosophers have different attitudes towards this concept. The philosophical statements of great people speak about this.

Good is always stronger than evil, and there is more of it. The latter can be unbearably painful, and goodness often goes unnoticed. As the Persian poet M. Saadi said, with the help of kindness and gentle words you can lead an elephant by a thread. The great L.N. Tolstoy said that people are loved for their goodness and not loved for the evil that was done to them. The question of how to distinguish good from evil is quite acute for people. On this occasion, M. Cicero wrote that the most alarming fact in human life is ignorance of good and evil.

Philosophy, the mother of all sciences, helps a person answer many questions concerning various spheres of life, relations between society and people, and knowledge of life moves humanity forward.