Western classic philosophical quotes (selected 150 sentences)

In daily study, work and life, many people have come into contact with or used some of the more classic quotes. Are you familiar with them? Memorizing famous quotes can help deepen your understanding of knowledge comprehension questions. What kind of quotes are good quotes? The following is a collection of classic Western philosophy quotes that I have compiled for your reference only. Let’s take a look.

Western classic philosophy quotes 1

1. Aristotle: Human nature lies in seeking knowledge

2. Zeno: Human knowledge is like a Circle

　3. Heraclitus: One cannot step into the same river twice

　4. Machiavelli: Politics is immoral

　5. Only Those who never look up at the stars will not fall into the pit. ——Thales

6. Existence is reasonable, and everything that is reasonable must exist. ——Hegel

7. One of the most special weaknesses of human nature is that it cares about how others view itself. —— Schopenhauer

8. It is a huge temptation to make your spirit clear. ——Wittgenstein

9. People are afraid of freedom and responsibility, so people would rather hide in self-made cages. ——Franz Kafka

10. The lantern in my hand makes the dark road in front of me an enemy. ——Tagore Western classic philosophical sayings 2

1. I think, therefore I am. ——Descartes

2. Existence is reasonable, and everything that is reasonable must exist. ——Hegel

3. Man follows the earth, earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and Tao follows nature. ——Lao Tzu

4. Human beings are first of all creatures who push themselves towards a future and know that they are doing just that. ——Sartre

5. If the history of evolution were to repeat itself, the probability of human beings appearing would be zero. ——Goodell

6. There are no two identical leaves in the world. —— Leibniz

7. Material determines consciousness. ——Marx

8. There are no objects, only movement. ——Bergson

9. To exist is to be perceived. ——Berkeley

10. Thinking is the thinking of being,...Thinking is the thinking of being, because thinking occurs because of being and belongs to being. At the same time, thinking is present, because thinking belongs to being and obeys being. ——Heidegger

11. The most permanent thing to think about is the road. ——Heidegger

12. People are full of achievements, but they still live poetically on the earth. ——Holderlin

13. The world is the sum of facts, not the sum of things. ——Wittgenstein

14. Human consciousness succumbs to materialized structures. ——Lukács

15. Philosophers just explain the world in different ways, and the problem is to change the world. ——Marx

16. Scientists give us order in our thoughts; morality gives us order in our actions; art gives us order in the grasp of visible, touchable, and audible appearances. . ——Cassir

17. The meaning of an object is determined by the direction in which it is seen by oneself. ——Merleau-Ponty

18. Thought does not come when you want it to come, but it determines its coming and going. ——Schopenhauer

19. I know nothing except the fact that I am ignorant. ——Socrates

20. At every moment of existence, people are passive tools in the control of necessity. ——Holbach

21. As a moment, it is of course short-lived... However, it is decisive and full of eternity. ——Kierkegaard

22. Happiness is no pain in the body and no trouble in the soul.

——Yibi Julu

23. I cannot provide myself or others with the ordinary happiness in daily life. This kind of happiness meant nothing to me, and I couldn't organize my life around it. ——Foucault

24. The scientific language game hopes to make its statement the truth, but it is unable to legitimize the truth it proposes on its own. ——Lyotard

25. As long as any philosophical thought can justify itself, it has some kind of real knowledge. ——Russell

26. In everything, the essential characteristics of beauty and goodness are consistent, because they are based on the same form, so goodness is praised as beauty by us. —— Thomas Aquinas

27. Justice is the primary value of social system, just like truth is the primary value of thought. —— Rawls

28. The hidden essence of the universe itself is not strong enough to resist the courage to seek knowledge. To the intrepid seeker, it can only reveal its secrets and reveal its riches and mysteries to him for his enjoyment. ——Hegel

29. The existence that can be understood is language. ——Gadamer

30. From the beginning, the problem is to bring pure and silent experience into the pure expression of its meaning. ——Husserl

31. Habit is the greatest guide in life. ——Hume

32. Man is born free, but he is always in chains. Thinking you are the master of everything else, you are more of a slave than anything else. ——Rousseau

33. Know yourself. ——Socrates

34. Life is just a passing traveler. —— Thomas Aquinas

35. Truth is a product of time, not of authority. ——Bacon

36. Human life cannot be measured by the length of time. When the heart is full of love, an instant is eternity. ——Nietzsche

37. There are two different types of ignorance. Shallow ignorance exists before knowledge, and learned ignorance exists after knowledge. ——Montaigne

38. Whoever owns the legal language will own the relevant resources and interests. ——Bourdieu

39. In this world, there is always a difference between treating people equally and trying to make them equal. The former is a prerequisite for a free society, while the latter means "a new way of slavery" as described by D. Tocqueville. ——Hayek

40. Indulging one’s desires is the greatest disaster; talking about other people’s privacy is the greatest sin; not knowing one’s own faults is the greatest illness. ——Aristotle

41. Water is the origin of all things, and all things ultimately return to water. ——Thales

42. To make all irrational things subject to oneself and to freely control all irrational things according to its own inherent laws is the ultimate goal of man. ——Fichte

43. Whatever is realistic (exists) is reasonable, and whatever is reasonable (exists) is realistic. ——Hegel

44. Ordinary people only care about how to kill time, while slightly talented people think about how to use time. ——Schopenhauer

45. There is nothing else except this article. —— Derrida

46. Give me matter, and I will use it to create a universe. ——Kant

47. Not only cannot we force nature, we must also obey nature. ——Aeschylus

48. Everything that is certain is denied. —— Spinoza

49. The objective world is only poetry with primitive spirit and no consciousness. - Schelling

50. Knowledge ultimately comes from experience. ——Locke Classic Western Philosophy Quotations 3

1. When the sand blown by the wind falls into my sad eyes, everyone can see that I am waiting for you.

2. It turns out that love hurts so much and is more difficult than imagined.

Tears are always disobedient, happiness hides and remains silent.

3. I can’t find my way back. I wish I had never left.

4. The beginning and the ending are both destined, but I don’t know how confusing the process will be.

5. Youth is a waltz, half sad and half ambiguous.

6. Many dreams are waiting to happen, but I can no longer tell whether you are a stranger or a passing love.

7. I can meet the whole world, but I will never meet you again.

8. Only your sadness or happiness can make the air amplify the sound of rain hitting the piano keys.

9. Time will take away many memories, but it cannot take away my determination to love you.

10. The promises you made have long since become vulnerable, and you only deceive yourself.

11. I will not stand still and I will not regret every step I take.

12. If I miss you, it will hurt. I want to give myself anesthesia. No matter how painful it is, I feel nothing.

13. Life can be destroyed, but as long as you live, don’t fall!

14. Catch up with the future, grasp its essence, and transform the future into the present. ——Chernyshevsky

15. The ultimate value of life lies in the ability to awaken and think, not just in survival. ——Aristotle

16. If anyone wants to receive help in times of trouble, he should be lenient to others in ordinary times. ——Sadie

17. It’s better to have a good pear than a basket of rotten pears. Even if there are only two or three active and loyal people, it is better than ten energetic people. ——Lenin

18. The future is bright and beautiful, love it, rush towards it, work for it, welcome it, and make it a reality as much as possible! ——Chernyshevsky

19. Life is a school without graduation. ——Li Kai

20. Work is the value of life, the joy of life, and the place of happiness. —— Rodin

21. Whoever wants to play life will achieve nothing. Whoever cannot master himself will always be a slave. ——Goethe

22. Famous artists are constrained by fame, so their earliest works are often the best. ——Beethoven

23. There are two tragedies in life. One is despair; the other is complacency. ——Bernard Shaw

24. You must remember to always happily give more to others and take less from others. ——Golky

25. Self-control is the instinct of the strongest. ——Bernard Shaw

26. You should help your friends when they are in trouble, and do not gossip after things are hopeless. ——Aesop

27. To achieve a big thing, you must start from small things. ——Lenin

28. Careers are often made by perseverance and destroyed by impatience. ——Sadie

29. No matter what happens, please be quiet and happy! This is life. We must accept life as it is, bravely, boldly, and always smiling. ——Luxembourg

30. Silence is more beneficial to social interaction than insincere words. ——Montaigne

31. Judge a person not by his own confession or opinion of himself, but by his actions. ——Lenin

32. Those who have sacrificed themselves for the sake of a better future are all stone statues. ——Fuchik

33. In order to play your role in life, love life! —— Rodin

34. Whoever plays life will achieve nothing; whoever does not master himself will always be a slave. ——Goethe

35. Everyone knows that it is much more difficult to turn language into action than to turn action into language.

——Gorky

36. People should control their habits, but they must not let habits control people. If a person cannot get rid of his bad habits, it is simply worthless. ——Ostrovsky

37. Faith is spiritual labor; animals have no faith, and savages and primitive people only have fear and doubt. Only a noble organization can achieve faith. ——Chekhov

38. Bravery and the belief in victory often make the battle end victoriously. ——Engels

39. Don’t look at everyone with distrust, but be cautious and firm. ——Democritus

40. For an immature teenager, bad partners play a much greater role than good teachers. ——Aesop

41. We should not waste our lives, we should be able to say: "I have done what I can do." ——Marie Curie

42. Haha ! Noble demeanor! What a terrible thing! Grace is the enemy of creativity. ——Picasso

43. Bad habits will hinder your path to fame, profit and enjoyment at any time. ——Shakespeare

44. A person who does not pay attention to small things will never succeed in a big cause. ——Carnegie

45. Man is mortal as an individual, but immortal as a whole. ——April

46. We must have perseverance, especially self-confidence! We must believe that our gifts are meant for something, and that something must be done no matter how high the cost. ——Marie Curie

47. To make others like you, you must first change your attitude towards people, relax your spirit, have a natural expression and a pleasant smile, so that others will be attracted to you. The feeling of love. ——Carnegie

48. Every bit of progress is slow and arduous. A person can only solve a limited goal at a time. ——Beveridge

49. I have always hated people who plan for their own food and clothing. People are higher than food and clothing. ——Gorky

50. A horse can’t take ten steps with one leap; a horse can ride ten times, but the merit lies in perseverance; if you persevere, the rotten wood will not break; if you persevere, the metal and stone can be carved. ——Xun Kuang

51. No matter how you express your anger, do not do anything irreparable. ——Bacon

52. A few bites from flies can never detain a galloping horse. ——Voltaire

53. Say less beautiful words and do more ordinary things. ——Lenin

54. Life is like a book. Foolish people flip through it hastily, but smart people read it carefully. Why so, because they can only read it once. ——Paul

55. Time will pierce the colorful decorations on the surface of youth, dig deep grooves and shallow grooves on the forehead of beauty, and eat the rare treasures! Naturally beautiful, nothing can escape his sweeping scythe. ——Shakespeare

56. To become a truly educated person, you must have three qualities: profound knowledge, thinking habits and noble sentiment. Not having much knowledge means ignorance; not being accustomed to thinking means being rude or stupid; not having noble sentiments means being vulgar. ——Chernyshevsky

57. Think before you act to avoid doing stupid things. Because hasty actions and words are both despicable characteristics. ——Pythagoras

58. The most terrifying enemy is the lack of strong faith. ——Romain Rolland

59. When you are angry, count to ten before speaking. If you are very angry, count to one hundred. ——Jefferson

60. If a person’s activities are not inspired by noble thoughts, then it is useless and insignificant. ——Chernyshevsky Classic Western Philosophy Quotations 4

1. Love is the laurel crown of life, and it will fall to the ground if it swings, because without love in our souls, we will be very depressed if we continue to live. Therefore, you must correct your personality, hold your head high in love, and you will naturally love and treat the person you love all the time.

2. In the final analysis, love is the reflection of one’s self-worth in others.

3. Love has nothing to give except itself, and nothing to receive except itself.

4. Love has a wonderful magical power, which makes one person fall for another person.

5. Parting makes love passionate, and meeting makes it strong.

6. Love is a platform on which all kinds of people gather.

7. Love is a fickle guy. It longs for everything but is dissatisfied with almost everything.

8. The only gift needed for love is love.

9. There is no rope that can be more stretched and pulled than the double thread twisted by love.

10. Love is free, and free love is the most real.

11. Love, your words are my food, and your breath is my wine.

12. True love can only occur after giving up personal happiness.

13. Love is the tyrant in the heart; it makes reason unclear and judgment unclear; it does not listen to advice and runs straight in the direction of madness.

14. Once someone opposes it, love will become more valuable like forbidden fruit.

15. Love is a passion that consumes all your energy. Love is a flame that sets your will on fire. Love is a bait that deceives people into the mire. Love puts poison on the arrows of the God of Destiny.

16. Love is like Buddhist Zen - it cannot be said, it cannot be said, and it is wrong to say it.

17. Passionate love will never last.

18. A young woman’s love is like Jack’s beanpole, it grows very fast and can reach the sky overnight.

19. True love can inspire people and awaken the sleeping strength and hidden talents in his heart.

20. Love is real and lasting. It is the sweetest and bitterest thing we know.

21. Love is love that drives the development of the world.

22. True love is like a beautiful flower. The barren the ground it blooms on, the more pleasing it looks.

23. Love is the spark of the collision of two hearts. The law of love is dedication. The bridge of love is loyalty. The beacon of love is eternity. Love is the highest art of wisdom. The pace of love cannot be stopped!

24. Love is a great mentor, she teaches us to be a new person.

25. The sweetest thing is love, and the bitterest thing is love.

26. Love needs reasonable content, just like a raging fire needs oil to maintain; love is the harmonious blend of two similar natures in infinite feelings.

27. The wine of love is sweet but bitter. If two people drink it, it will be nectar; if three people drink it, it will be sour vinegar; if they drink it casually, they will be poisoned.

28. Water will be lost and fire will be extinguished, but love can compete with fate.

29. True love cannot be expressed in words, actions are the best explanation of loyalty.

30. Love is the history of a woman’s life, but just an episode in a man’s life. ;