Phrases from philosophers that are still relevant today.
Ancient philosophy continues to fascinate modern people thousands of years later for one simple reason: the statements of thinkers still do not lose their usefulness and relevance, they guide us on the right path and help correct our actions. Aristotle gave advice on how to avoid becoming greedy, Socrates gave advice on how to fill life with meaning, and Confucius explained the difference between satisfaction and achievement.
We have selected for you some wise advice from great philosophers who are suitable for life in large cities in the same way as they were suitable for life in the plains of the Ganges or at the foot of Olympus.
Philosophical aphorisms
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Hope is the source of great anxiety; freedom from hope is the source of great peace.
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Those who do not think about distant difficulties will certainly face near troubles (Confucius)
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Be attentive to your thoughts - they are the beginning of actions (Laozi/Li-Er)
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The sun has one flaw, it cannot see itself (Socrates)
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Your right to swear, my right not to listen (Aristippus)
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The most necessary science is the science of forgetting what is not necessary (Antisthenes)
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Friendship is content with what is possible without demanding what is due (Aristotle)
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates, 470-450 BC e., Athens
“The Death of Socrates” historical painting by Jacques-Louis David, 1787. / wikipedia.org
Socrates is called the first philosopher in the proper sense of the word. His activities had a great influence on the development of ancient philosophy. And the statement quoted above embodies the fundamental spirit of Western thought: man is responsible for his destiny, he is the author of his life.
Therefore, he said, we must study everything, including ourselves.
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“In reality, everything is completely different than in reality.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“It takes two to tell the truth—the storyteller and the listener.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Human disputes are endless not because it is impossible to find the truth, but because those who argue are not looking for truth, but for self-affirmation.”
“God doesn’t send us despair to kill us—He sends it to us to awaken new life in us!”
Hermann Hesse
He who has many vices also has many rulers.
F. Petrarch
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“No matter how many mistakes you make and no matter how slowly you move forward, you will still do it faster than those who don’t even try.”
“People were created to be loved, and things were created to be used. The world is in chaos because everything is the other way around.”
Dalai Lama
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“Action is everything; reputation is nothing."
“Theory, my friend, is dry, but the tree of life is ever green.”
Johann Wolfang von Goethe
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“To see the World in a Grain of Sand, Heaven in a Wild Flower, Squeeze Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour.”
“Truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde
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You should not confuse loneliness and solitude. Loneliness for me is a psychological, mental concept, while solitude is physical. The first dulls, the second calms.
Carlos Castaneda
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“There are no stupid people in the world. There are those who see the truth and those who use it..."
Anita Joan Smith
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“When giving, do it easily, when losing, do it easily, when saying goodbye, do it easily. When giving, losing, saying goodbye, don’t be sad about the future, but thank the past.”
Ancient Chinese wisdom
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“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
F. Bacon
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“Be a friend of truth to the point of martyrdom, but do not be its defender to the point of intolerance.”
Pythagoras
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“Avoid people who consider impudence to be courage and soft-heartedness to be weak-willed. And avoid those who believe that chatter is wisdom and silence is ignorance. Don’t you see, lions are silent, but they are feared, and dogs bark loudly, but they are driven away with stones.”
Imam al-Shafi'i
“The truth, which has become the property of the crowd, very soon becomes distorted beyond recognition.” Buffon Georges Louis Leclerc
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“The surest sign of truth is simplicity and clarity. A lie is always complex, elaborate and verbose.”
L. Tolstoy
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“A helpful fool is more dangerous than an enemy.”
I.A. Krylov *******
One woman had a dream that the Lord stood behind the store counter instead of a salesman. - God! It's you! “Yes, I am,” God answered. – What can I buy from you? “That’s it,” was the answer. – Then, I would like to buy health, happiness, love, success, and a lot of money! God smiled and went to get the ordered goods. Soon He returned with a small cardboard box. - This is all?! - the woman exclaimed. “Yes,” God answered calmly, “didn’t you know that I only sell seeds?”
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“During his lifetime, Chen Zhen often said that he was not like others. But then he died, and his grave is no different from the others. »
Ba Jin
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“All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
L. Tolstoy
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“The great science of living happily is to live only in the present.”
“Take care of the tears of your children so that they may shed them at your grave.”
“Do great things without promising great things.”
"Friendship is equality."
“When you rise, your friends will know who you are. When you fall, you find out who your friends are."
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“Life is like games: some come to compete, others to trade, and the happiest come to watch.”
Pythagoras
“Happy is the one who is prevented from cheating by love, not morality.”
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“Think, look for a reason, find a way when faith would make you different - not in external differences, by putting on a badge, which is petty absurdity”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“Any person, without explaining anything to him, can be put in prison for ten years, and somewhere in the depths of his soul he will know why.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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“A domestic quarrel is a family dispute in which the wife tells her husband that she has nothing more to say, and he is obliged to listen to it for an hour.”
Evan Ezar
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“Make sure you get what you want, otherwise you'll have to love what you get.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“If you are in your right mind, do not dream that the one who fell into your arms so quickly will be faithful to you.”
Ovid
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“Friendship is such a sacred, sweet, lasting and permanent feeling that it can be preserved for life, if only you do not try to borrow money.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“If a woman hates you, it means she loved you, loves you or will love you.”
German proverb
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“There is no woman who could say “goodbye” in less than thirty words.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“There is only one path to happiness - to stop worrying about things that are beyond our control.”
Epictetus
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“Self-indulgence is accompanied by predation on others.”
Gennady Malkin
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“From the point of view of youth, life is an infinitely long future; from the point of view of old age - a very short past.”
A. Schopenhauer
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“Heroes are not born. Heroes die..."
“Do not judge a man by his friends; do not forget that Judas had impeccable friends.”
“You don’t need to peer into the abyss very often, otherwise the abyss will begin to peer into you.”
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“I never resist temptation, for I know from experience that what is harmful to me does not tempt me.”
George Bernard Shaw
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He who does not know the value of silence does not know the value of words. Not to hear in noisy companies Words that are full of meaning
E. Pomytkin
“Life is a mystery that you need to be able to accept and not torment yourself with the constant question: “What is the meaning of my life?” It’s better to fill your life with meaning and things that are important to you.”
P. Coelho
“He who is strong in body can endure both heat and cold. Likewise, someone who is mentally healthy is able to endure anger, grief, joy, and other feelings.”
Epictetus
"Don't speak unless it changes the silence for the better."
Chinese folk wisdom
“True words are not graceful. Fine words are not trustworthy. Kind is not eloquent. An eloquent person cannot be kind. He who knows does not prove, he who proves does not know. The sage does not accumulate anything. He does everything for people and gives everything to others. The Heavenly Dao benefits all beings and does not harm them. The Tao of the perfect sage is action without struggle.”
Zhang 81 from the Book of Path and Power.
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In the struggle the shield will be exhausted and the spear in the struggle each of us will die. You went out to look, so look for yours! - no one else will give up theirs.
You wanted to say the right word, but you hurt other people with your word - you knew, but they didn’t want to know anyone’s borrowed ideas.
No exit. But where there is an entrance, you can simply leave a light on, and if someone enters there, he will know that there is no way out.
Then, without words, without your ideas, without persuasion to go forward, many very kind people will silently follow you.
They will go without asking whether you are enlightened or in darkness, just everyone is ready to find the most important thing on earth.
ABOUT! How simple it is - not to suffer! Be silent and give wisdom to the path, because the most important thing is to become a light! And you can immediately see where to go.
The true calling of everyone consists of only one thing - to come to oneself, to find one’s own, and not a loved one’s, destiny and to surrender to it internally, completely and unshakably.
Hermann Hesse
“And yet death remains forever and ever the only predetermined event for each of us.”
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“What would we do if we built the world, brought into being a great being and saw that here something has failed, there is only half in order, and here both are out of place? Now they would intervene, tear it out, destroy it, right?
We would not notice the value contained even in the imperfect, the spark of true light in the failed, we would forget how important it is.”
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"Only one step between me and death"
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“What is the longest word? Eternity. The shortest now. It doesn't even last a second. Think that now this is the time during which we must prepare for eternity.”
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“One should be extremely humble and have nothing to defend, not even one’s own personality. One's own personality must be protected, but not defended.
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“If you ignore the enemy and yourself, then you are a complete fool and will definitely be defeated in every battle. If you know yourself but don't know the enemy, for every battle you win you will lose the next. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you will win every battle.”
Sun Tzu
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“Failure is simply an opportunity to start again, but more wisely.”
Henry Ford
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“If a problem can be solved, there is no need to worry about it. If a problem cannot be solved, there is no point in worrying about it.”
Dalai Lama
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“Even if you are very talented and put in a lot of effort, some results just take time: you won’t get a baby in a month even if you get nine women pregnant.”
Warren Buffett
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“Our big flaw is that we give up too quickly. The surest path to success is to always try again.”
Thomas Edison
“The most outstanding talents are ruined by idleness.”
Montaigne
“A smart person loves to learn, a fool loves to teach.”
Bulat Okudzhava
“The best that we are capable of manifests itself in us when we are backed against the wall, when we feel the sword raised above our heads! Personally, I wouldn’t want it any other way!”
Carlos Castaneda
“Do not be timid before the enemy: man’s fiercest enemy is himself.”
Kozma Prutkov
“Only he is worthy of life and freedom who goes to battle for them every day...”
I.V. Goethe
“Truth is not transmitted, truth is perceived.”
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. But they make the best of what they have.”
“If you are upset about something, then you are living in the past; if you are worried about something, you are living in the future; if you are experiencing bliss and lightness, you are living in the present.”
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“We don’t see everything as it is - we see everything as we are.”
“No matter what the rake teaches, the heart believes in miracles”
“Most people are only as happy as they decide to be.”
Lincoln
“Sometimes it’s good to be silent so that you can be heard. And disappear to be noticed"
Keep busy. This is the cheapest medicine on earth - and one of the most effective."
“Real men have a happy woman, others have a strong woman”
“If you managed to kick the ass of the person responsible for most of your troubles, you would not be able to sit for a week.”
“The downside of loneliness is that after a while you start to enjoy it, and you simply don’t let anyone into your life.”
“Courage is not in the strength of the hand or the art of wielding a sword, courage is in self-control.”
“Each of us has only one true calling - to find the path to ourselves.”
Hermann Hoesse
“There are no unattainable goals, there is a high coefficient of laziness, a lack of ingenuity and a stock of excuses.”
“You shouldn’t waste time on a person who doesn’t want to spend it on himself.”
Gabriel Marquez
“Where there are few words, they have weight”
Shakespeare
“There is a Sun in every person, just let it shine”
“Follow your desire and it will follow you. The universe will open doors for you where there used to be walls.”
Joseph Cambale
“The less a person needs, the closer he is to the gods”
Socrates
“Take care of those who love you: they usually come suddenly and leave quietly”
“Don’t lose the worthy... for the sake of the affordable”
“Life begins where your comfort zone ends”
Napoleon Hill
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.”
Confucius
“Any goal will be achieved by the one whose deeds, thoughts and words are united!”
“When we lose our sense of self-importance, we become invulnerable.”
“Everyone knows from childhood that such and such is impossible. But there is always an ignoramus who does not know this. He makes discoveries."
Einstein
“Life is not a property to be protected, but a gift to be shared with other people.”
William Faulkner
“Dreams are reality waiting to happen”
“The temptation to give up is especially strong shortly before victory.”
“The greatest pleasure is to do what others think you cannot do.”
“There are no hopeless situations, unnecessary people, random meetings and wasted time.”
“Ancient Wisdom is learned not in order to dominate and command over someone, and not in order to be proud of other Clans. Ancient Wisdom has always been learned in order to understand one’s Life Path, and in order to pass it on to Descendants.”
“When you wake up in the morning, ask yourself: “What should I do?” In the evening, before falling asleep: “What have I done?”
Pythagoras
“If a problem can be solved, there is no need to worry about it. If a problem cannot be solved, there is no point in worrying about it.”
Dalai Lama
“Once in a lifetime, fortune knocks on every person’s door, but at that time a person often sits in the nearest pub and does not hear any knock.”
Mark Twain
“Our big flaw is that we give up too quickly. The surest path to success is to always try again.”
Thomas Edison
“The poor, unsuccessful, unhappy and unhealthy is the one who often uses the word “tomorrow.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Old people always advise young people to save money. This is bad advice. Don't save nickels. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar in my life until I was forty.”
Henry Ford
“Hard work is the accumulation of easy things you didn’t do when you should have done them.”
John Maxwell
"I used to say, 'I hope things change.' Then I realized that the only way for everything to change was for me to change.”
Jim Rohn
“Do today what others do not want, tomorrow you will live as others cannot.”
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Methuselah lived 969 years. You, dear boys and girls, will see more in the next ten years than Methuselah saw in his entire life.
Mark Twain
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If you hate, it means you've been defeated
Confucius
Life itself is a blank canvas, and it will become the way you paint it. You can paint suffering, or you can paint bliss. In this freedom is your greatness.
“Bliss is not something that can be achieved. It already exists—you are born with it.”
“There are things that can only appear because of you, and there are things that can only appear when you are not there. There are things that can only be done in deep non-action: birth, death, love, meditation. Everything that is beautiful just happens to you - remember that. Remember this firmly. You can't do it yourself."
OSHO
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Success and fame do not change people - it only reveals what is inherent in them.
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