131 Short Philosophical Thoughts [with Pictures]

I leave you the best philosophical thoughts of great authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Pythagoras, Kant, Plato, Auguste Comte and many more.

You may also be interested in these of the most important philosophers in history.

-Know yourself to improve yourself.-Auguste Comte.

-Ideas rule over the world, or throw it into chaos.-Auguste Comte.

-As the soul, which is air, preserves us in life, breath and air surround and maintain the world.-Anaximenes.

-All things originated from the degree of consideration or rarity of the air, because of cold and heat.-Anaximenes.

-The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.-Anaximenes.

-The wise man does not say everything he thinks, but he always thinks everything he says.-Aristotle.

-The ignorant affirms, the wise doubt and reflect.-Aristotle.

-The true disciple is the one who surpasses the teacher.-Aristotle.

-Friendship is a soul that inhabits two bodies; A heart that dwells in two souls.-Aristotle.

-The most powerful man is the one who is totally master of himself.-Aristotle.

-The only real life is the collective life of the race; Individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.-Auguste Comte.

-To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.-Auguste Comte.

-The dead rule the living.-Auguste Comte.

-Human glory is nothing but a great sound of wind in the ears.-Boethius.

-In any adversity of fortune, the greatest unhappiness is to have been happy.-Boethius.

-To be really great, one has to be with the people, not above them.-Charles de Montesquieu.

-Freedom is the right to do what the law allows.-Charles de Montesquieu.

-The less man thinks, the more he speaks.-Charles de Montesquieu.

-An empire founded with war has to maintain itself with war.-Charles de Montesquieu.

-There is no tyranny more cruel than that which is perpetuated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.-Charles de Montesquieu.

-The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.-David Hume.

-The beauty of things exists in the mind that contemplates them.-David Hume.

-Hate, love, think, feel, see; They are nothing more to perceive.-David Hume.

-Reason is not the guide of life, but custom.-David Hume.

-Happy is he whose circumstances suit his temperament; But the one who adjusts his temperament to any circumstance is more excellent.-David Hume.

-Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.-Democritus.

-Happiness does not reside in possessions or in gold, happiness resides in the soul.-Democritus.

-There are men who work as if they were going to live forever.-Democritus.

-Whoever acts unjustly is more unfortunate than the victim of his injustice.-Democritus.

-The friendship of a wise man is better than that of all fools.-Democritus.

-The little that I have learned is worthless, compared to what I ignore and do not despair in learning.-Democritus.

-Two things contribute to progress: going faster than the others or being on the right track.-René Descartes.

-It is not enough to have a good wit; The main thing is to apply it well.-Descartes.

-I would give everything I know, for half of what I ignore.-Descartes.

-I think; therefore I am.-Descartes.

-Living without philosophizing is, properly speaking, having your eyes closed, without ever trying to open them.-René Descartes.

-It is impossible for something to become what it is in no way.-Empedocles.

-There is no mixing and separation of what had been mixed.-Empedocles.

-Monkeys are too good for man to descend from them.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-The destiny of men is made of happy moments, all life has them, but not of happy times.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-Hope is the worst of evils, because it prolongs the torment of man.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-The maturity of man is to have rediscovered the seriousness with which he played when he was a child.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-Only he who builds the future has the right to judge the past.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-Measure what can be measured; and what not, make it measurable.-Galileo Galilei.

-I have never met someone so ignorant from whom I could not learn something.-Galileo Galilei.

-Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe.-Galileo Galilei.

-You cannot teach a man anything; You can only help him discover it inside.-Galileo Galilei.

-Knowing yourself is the greatest knowledge.-Galileo Galilei.

-Nothing great in the world has ever been achieved without passion.-Hegel.

-Being independent of public opinion is the first formal condition to achieve something great.-Hegel.

-Whoever wishes everything does not really want anything, and achieves nothing.-Hegel.

-Everything rational is real; and everything real is rational.-Hegel.

-The drama is not choosing between good and evil, but between good and good.-Hegel.

-The sun is new every day.-Heraclitus.

-There is nothing permanent except change.-Heraclitus.

-Great results require great ambitions.-Heraclitus.

-Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.-Heraclitus.

-Character is destiny.-Heraclitus.

-You cannot enter the same river twice.-Heraclitus.

-Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.-Immanuel Kant.

-Two things amaze me more, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.-Immanuel Kant.

-Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual game.-Immanuel Kant.

-Live your life as if all your acts were to become a universal law.-Immanuel Kant.

-Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.-Immanuel Kant.

-Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

-Man is born free and everywhere is chained.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

-No man has a natural authority over his fellow men.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

-The person who has lived the longest is not the one who is the longest, but the one who has the richest experiences.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

-I may not be the best, but at least I am different.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

-I have always thought that man's actions are the best interpreters of his thoughts.-John Locke.

-What worries you controls you.-John Locke.

-We are like chameleons, we take the tone and color of our moral character from those around us.-John Locke.

-The government has no other purpose than the preservation of property.-John Locke.

-The knowledge of no man here can go beyond his experience.-John Locke.

-Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable way.-Karl Marx.

-The dispossessed have a world to win.-Karl Marx.

-The devaluation of the human world grows directly due to the valuation of the world of things.-Karl Marx.

-The worker has more need of respect than of bread.-Karl Marx.

-The engine of history is the class struggle.-Kar Marx.

-Knowing that we know what we know and knowing that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.-Nicolás Copernicus.

-Since I am not so in love with my own opinions, I do not care what others think of them.-Nicolás Copernicus.

-As seated on a royal throne, the Sun governs the family of planets that revolve around him.-Nicholas Copernicus.

-The sky of the fixed stars is the highest of what is visible.-Nicolás Copernicus.

-First of all, we must know that the universe is spherical.-Nicolás Copernicus.

-Evil is done together and good is administered little by little.-Nicholas Machiavelli.

-Men offend the one they love before the one they fear.-Nicholas Machiavelli.

-Nothing great was ever achieved without danger.-Nicholas Machiavelli.

-It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.-Nicholas Machiavelli.

-If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his revenge need not be feared.-Nicholas Machiavelli.

-Everything there is has always existed. Nothing can come from nothing. And something that exists cannot be converted into anything either.-Parmenides.

-The same remains in the same, and rests in itself.-Parmenides.

-The same is thinking and being.-Parmenides.

-War is the art of destroying men, politics is the art of deceiving them.-Parmenides.

-Above all, respect yourself.-Pythagoras.

-Educate children and it will not be necessary to punish men.-Pythagoras.

-Don't be afraid to die. Death is nothing more than a stop.-Pythagoras.

-Measure your desires, weigh your opinions, count your words.-Pythagoras.

-Music is for the soul what gymnastics is for the body.-Plato. 

-The wise man will always want to be with someone who is better than him.-Plato.

-Looking for the good of our fellow men, we find ours.-Plato.

-Poverty does not come from the diminution of wealth, but from the multiplication of desires.-Plato.

-There is no man so cowardly whom love does not make brave and transform into a hero.-Plato.

-The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.-Saint Augustine.

-Faith is believing in what you don't see; The reward of this faith is to see what you believe.-Saint Augustine.

-Love is the beauty of the soul.-Saint Augustine.

-Patience is the companion of wisdom.-Saint Augustine.

-If you want to know a person, do not ask him what he thinks but what he loves.-Saint Augustine.

-Faith refers to things that are not seen, and hope, to things that are not within reach.-Saint Thomas Aquinas.

-Beings endowed with intelligence desire to exist always and a natural desire cannot exist in vain.-Saint Thomas Aquinas.

-Justice without mercy is cruelty.-Saint Thomas Aquinas.

-Treat others as you wish others to treat you.-Saint Thomas Aquinas.

-There is only one good: knowledge. There is only one evil: ignorance.-Socrates.

-The notions of good and evil are innate in the human soul.-Socrates.

-To disembark on the island of wisdom you have to sail in an ocean of afflictions.-Socrates.

-Only the knowledge that makes us better is useful.-Socrates.

-True wisdom is in recognizing your own ignorance.-Socrates.

-The happiness of the body is based on health; that of understanding, in knowledge.-Thales.

-Many words never indicate wisdom.-Thales de Mileto.

-The most difficult thing in life is knowing yourself.-Thales de Mileto.

-The supreme pleasure is to obtain what is desired.-Thales de Mileto.

-Hope is the only good common to all men; Those who have lost everything still possess it.-Thales de Mileto.

-Experience has shown us that nothing is more difficult for the person to master than his language.-Spinoza.

-If you do not want to repeat the past, study it.-Spinoza.

-I do not regret anything. He who regrets what he has done is doubly unhappy.-Spinoza.

-The most important activity that a human being can achieve is to learn to understand, because to understand is to be free.-Spinoza.

-If honor were profitable, everyone would be honored.-Thomas More.

-An absolutely new idea is one of the strangest things known to man.-Thomas More.

-I would defend the law, if only to protect myself from myself.-Thomas More.

-God gave us the gift of life; It is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.-Voltaire.

-Faith consists in believing when believing is beyond the power of reason.-Voltaire.

-Common sense is not so common.-Voltaire.

-Only he who knows how to limit his desires is immensely rich.-Voltaire.

-Azar is a word devoid of meaning. Nothing can exist without a cause.-Voltaire.