50 short philosophical phrases to share reflections and wisdom

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

Motivation is a door that opens from within.

Mario Sergio Cortella

The secret to success is knowing something that no one else knows.

Aristotle

Let freedom be our very substance.

Simone de Beauvoir

The big secret to wholeness is very simple: sharing.

Socrates

Love is not defined. Sit down.

seneca

Where there is a strong will, there cannot be great difficulties.

Machiavelli

Sometimes the word represents a more skillful way of being silent than silence.

Simone de Beauvoir

When a man is a good friend, he also has good friends.

Machiavelli

When sailing aimlessly, no wind is favourable.

seneca

The secret of happiness and the height of art is to live like everybody else and be like nobody else.

Simone de Beauvoir

Live in harmony with the laws of nature and you will never be poor.

seneca

It is wise not to fully trust the one who once deceived us.

Rene Descartes

If life is worth living and if death is part of life, then dying is also worth living.

Immanuel Kant

As illness occurs in the body, so sadness occurs in the spirit.

seneca

We are not rich because of what we have, but because of what we don’t need to have.

Immanuel Kant

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Hegel

There is no one, even without culture, who does not become a poet when love takes care of him.

Plato

There is no place for wisdom where there is no patience.

Saint Augustine

Giving a book is, in addition to a kindness, a compliment.

seneca

Peace of heart is a paradise for men.

Plato

The food of youth is illusion.

Rene Descartes

All art and all philosophy can be considered as remedies for life.

Nietzsche

We are all equal in the face of moral duty.

Immanuel Kant

History teaches is that governments and people never learn from history.

Hegel

Be slow to form a friendship, but when you are in it, remain steady and steady.

Socrates

Winning yourself is the greatest of victories.

Plato

The wise man never says everything he thinks, but always thinks everything he says.

Aristotle

There is only one good, knowledge, and only one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

Without pleasure, there is no life. The fight for pleasure is the fight for life.

Nietzsche

Beware of the emptiness of an overly busy life.

Socrates

In necessary things, unity; in the doubtful, freedom; and in all, charity.

Saint Augustine

Without music life would be a mistake.

Nietzsche

The joy of the soul constitutes the beautiful days of life, whatever the season.

Socrates

A life without challenges is not worth living.

Socrates

Do you live a life today that you would like to live for all eternity?

Nietzsche

The sweetest life is not thinking about anything.

Nietzsche

I can’t teach anyone anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

Love makes us adopt noble attitudes to be worthy of the loved one.

Socrates

In true love, it is the soul that surrounds the body.

Nietzsche

He is a weakling who fears the one who is not equal and feels threatened by him.

Mario Sergio Cortella

Life gets harder and harder near the top.

Nietzsche

To know how to speak, you must know how to listen.

Plutarch

What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.

Nietzsche

Failure does not happen when you make a mistake, but when you give up in the face of mistake.

Mario Sergio Cortella

It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.

Confucius

In the midst of chaos there is always an opportunity.

Sun Tzu

Small opportunities are often the start of big ventures.

demosthenes

Knowledge serves to charm people, not to humiliate them.

Mario Sergio Cortella

We love life not because we are used to life, but because we love it.

Nietzsche