Great famous quotes pronounced by writers, thinkers and intellectual figures.
The human being has always inquired into the study of the problems he encountered throughout his own existence, and philosophy is born from this study.
In the course of history, philosophers, thinkers and why not all kinds of people at some point have left a record of those philosophical thoughts that try to give us an answer to some of the problems they have encountered and that many times also we have come across ourselves.
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Phrases of Philosophy with which to reflect on life
Below we have made a list of the 75 most relevant philosophical phrases that, in our understanding, we should all know and hopefully shed a little light on some existential question that some of you may have.
1. He who seeks to ensure the well-being of others, already has his own insured. (Confucius)
What is said is not the same as what is done, and sometimes things can be contradictory.
2. The unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates)
The study of life gives us knowledge to every human being.
3. When you step beyond the world’s system, all you do is stir up an inquiring mood that can never be satisfied. (David Humes)
The development of personal humor can take us to places that we did not suspect.
4. We do not know, it is true, how these bodies interact with each other. His forces and energies are totally incomprehensible. (David Humes)
The first step towards wisdom is the recognition of ignorance.
5. There is only happiness where there is virtue and serious effort, because life is not a game. (Aristotle)
Achieving happiness can be very complicated.
6. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of the imagination. (Immanuel Kant)
The happiness we imagine may not be a realistic idea.
7. We look for happiness, but without knowing where, like drunkards looking for their home, knowing they have one. (Voltaire)
We all want to achieve happiness but we do not know how to get there.
8. To fall in love is to be enchanted by something, and something can only enchant if it is or appears to be perfection. (Jose Ortega y Gasset)
We tend to fall in love with what we think is closest to perfection.
9. To love is to find your own happiness in the happiness of another. (Gottfried Leibniz)
When we love, we put the happiness of our partner before our own.
10. Being deeply loved gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. (Lao Tse)
Loving and being loved can take us very far.
11. Each solution gives rise to a new question. (David Humes)
There is no answer for everything.
12. The day when it is possible for women to love not out of weakness but out of strength, not to escape from themselves but to find themselves, not to humiliate themselves but to reaffirm themselves; that day her love will be for her, as it is for man, a source of life. (Simone deBeauvoir)
Love cannot be imposed, it must come from us.
13. Justice without mercy is cruelty. (Thomas Aquinas)
Applying justice severely can lead to cruel acts. .
14. The virtuous person is satisfied with dreaming what the sinner accomplishes in life. (Plato)
Perhaps we all want to sin at some point in life.
15. If you already know what you have to do and you don’t do it, then you are worse off than before. (Confucius)
I think first, then I act.
16. Thinking and loving are different things. Thought itself is inaccessible to love. (Friedrich Hegel)
Love can be irrational.
17. Admire those who try, even if they fail. (Seneca)
It is not the one who fails who loses, but the one who does not try. .
18. Fear the man of one book. (Thomas Aquinas)
Education is fundamental in human development.
19. The wise man can change his mind. The fool, never. (Kant)
Recognizing our mistake makes us wiser.
20. I think, therefore I am. (Discards)
Without thought we are nothing.
21. Life has a meaning if one wants to give it to it. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
We can make sense of our lives if we want to.
22. There is someone so intelligent that they learn from the experience of others. (Voltaire)
Seeing the mistake of others and trying not to make it is doubly beneficial for us.
23. Everything that is done for love, is done beyond good and evil. (Nietzsche)
In love there is no right or wrong.
24. Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age, to practice it. (Jacques Rousseau)
Wisdom costs us a lifetime to attain.
25. Happiness is a wonderful article: the more one gives, the more one has left. (BlaisePascal)
Your happiness begins with that of others.
26. In the same way that it is better to illuminate than just to shine, it is also greater to give to others the things contemplated than only to contemplate them. (Thomas Aquinas)
Sharing enhances us as a person.
27. Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny (Stephen Hawking)
Humor is a great ally in complicated situations.
28. Destiny is the one that shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who play them. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
How we play our tricks in life will lead us down different paths.
29. The least frequent thing in this world is to live. Most people exist, that’s all. (Oscar Wilde)
First there is thought and then existence.
30. Pick a job you love and you won’t have to work a day in your life. (Confucius)
Work, if it’s enjoyable, becomes just fun.
31. Falling in love is a state of mental misery in which the life of our conscience narrows, impoverishes and paralyzes. (Ortega y Gasset)
Being in love can prevent us from thinking clearly.
32. The worst fight is the one that is not done. (Karl Marx)
We must fight for a better future for all people.
33. We all live with the goal of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. (Anne Frank)
The search for happiness accompanies us throughout life.
34. Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of the mind and not a condition of circumstances. (Locke)
Happiness is only in our mind.
35. To be in leisure for a long time is not rest, but laziness. (Seneca)
Work dignifies us and focuses us on our personal goals.
36. When the rich go to war, it is the poor who die. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The class difference is a scourge that impoverishes us as individuals.
37. I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend with my life your right to express it. (Voltaire)
Freedom of expression is a fundamental right.
38. The secret of happiness is not always doing what you want, but always wanting what you do. (Leon Tolstoy)
We must know which path we want to follow in order to reach happiness, because happiness itself is on the path.
39. I am not proud, but happy, and happiness sometimes blinds more than pride. (Alexander Dumas)
When we are happy we can sometimes not think too clearly.
40. The greatest declaration of love is the one that is not made; The man that feels a lot, speaks little. (Plato)
Actions are worth more than words.
41. He who has a why to live can face all the “hows”. (Nietzsche)
Our determination has no barriers.
42. Ignorance flatly affirms or denies; science doubts. (Voltaire)
The ignorant cannot see their own ignorance.
43. The problem is that you think you have time. (Buddha)
Our time is a finite commodity.
44. The happiness that is lived derives from the love that is given, and later that love will be the happiness of oneself. (Isabel Allende)
Our own happiness begins with that of others.
45. A healthy mind in a healthy body is a short but broad description of a state of happiness in this world. (Locke)
To be happy it is important to be in contact with our mind and our body and work for their proper functioning.
46. The only custom to teach children is not to submit to any. (Jacques Rousseau)
We must do what makes us happy, not what is imposed on us.
47. True philosophers are those who like to contemplate the truth. (Plato)
Philosophy is also the search for truth.
48. The surest way to avoid becoming very unhappy is not to pretend to be very happy.(Arthur Schopenhauer)
If we do not seek happiness, we will never reach it.
49. To be surprised, to be surprised, is to begin to understand. (Ortega y Gasset)
Knowledge always comes from an initial doubt.
50. Nothing great has been done in the world without a great passion. (Friedrich Hegel)
Great deeds could not be carried out without passion and determination.
51. The ignorant man affirms, the wise man doubts and reflects. (Aristotle)
Aristotle explains to us in this sentence why some people develop intellectually and others do not.
52. The butterfly will remember forever that it was a worm. (Mario Benedetti)
We must remember where we come from.
53. Time is the best author: it always finds a perfect ending. (Charles Chaplin)
Time never stops… we must take advantage of it!
54. It matters much more what you think of yourself than what others think of you. (Seneca)
Our opinion of ourselves makes us who we are.
55. The time you enjoy wasting was not wasted. (John Lennon)
The time we enjoy has always been well spent.
56. A minute that passes is unrecoverable. Knowing this, how can we waste so many hours? (Gandhi)
Every minute we waste doing something we don’t like is a minute of our life that we will never get back.
57. The teacher’s job does not consist so much in teaching everything that can be learned, as in generating in the student love and esteem for knowledge. (Locke)
The love of learning will help us grow as people.
58. Remembering is easy for those who have memory. Forgetting is difficult for those who have a heart. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Our love clouds our reason.
59. Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” (Erich Fromm)
Loving someone can create a real dependency on that person.
60. Where there is education there is no class distinction. (Confucius)
Education equates us in the class struggle.
61. The unreality of what is looked at gives reality to the look. (Octavio Paz)
It all depends on how you look at things.
62. Some believe that to be friends it is enough to want, as if to be healthy it is enough to desire health. (Aristotle)
Friendship can be cultivated over time.
63. Does he who always waits suffer more than he who never waited for anyone? (Pablo Neruda)
Beautiful existential phrase by Pablo Neruda about someone who wants something.
64. It is only possible to progress when you think big, it is only possible to advance when you look far away. (Ortega y Gasset)
Having high expectations can lead us to achieve great goals.
65. I call myself a “feminist man”. Isn’t that what you call someone who fights for women’s rights? (Dalai Lama)
The Dalai Lama gives us a lesson on how we should fight for gender equality.
66. Live the way you would want to have lived if you died tomorrow. (Kant)
Take advantage of every minute of your life.
67. The bravest act is to think for oneself. Aloud. (Coco Chanel)
Free thought and freedom of expression are fundamental human rights.
68. There is nothing more equally distributed than reason: everyone is convinced that they have enough. (Discards)
Believing ourselves in the power of reason can hide the truth from us.
69. Be nice to people when you go up; You’ll find them all when you go down. (Edward Punset)
Life is full of ups and downs and we may need the one we least imagine.
70. One hundred years of injustice do not make right. (Friedrich Hegel)
An injustice is always an injustice.
71. With the exception of man, no being marvels at its own existence. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Egocentrism is something innate in human beings.
72. It is very difficult to think nobly when you only think to live. (Jacques Rousseau)
The development of our intellect is something that needs time and effort.
73. If you don’t like the road you’re on, start paving another one. (Dolly Parton)
When you don’t like something, change it!
74. There is no barrier, lock or bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind. (Virginia Wolf)
Free thought has no borders.
75. Only through education can man become a man. Man is nothing more than what education makes of him. (Kant)
Without education, people cannot develop to their full potential.
To the classic question “what do you do?” I always answer “basically I am a psychologist”. In fact, my academic training has revolved around the psychology of development, education and community, a field of study influenced my volunteer activities, as well as my first work experiences in personal services.