Intricate phrases. Philosophical phrases. Interesting phrases

How often does a person say something truly intelligent and valuable? Certainly much less often than any silly phrases. And after all, as the Bible tells us, in the beginning was the Word. It is this that allows us to maximize our thoughts and bring it to others.

Beautiful phrases that carry a deep meaning, as a rule, appear in the mind of smart and great people. They are usually quoted and called aphorisms. Let's get acquainted with a selection of the best quotes on a variety of topics.

Folk wisdom of Europe

We do not always know the author of any particular aphorism. They can be "people of the people". So, a simple peasant somehow expressed in the conversation a thought - and here is a ready quote, already going to the people. Intricate phrases in such a set of words were not included. People preferred something simple and concise that could be quickly selected as a weighty argument or reinforcement of their opinion.

So in the world there were proverbs and sayings. They are an important part of folklore. In them, in fact, the entire mentality of the author's people is visible. There are Russian phrases that have sunk into the soul and are very often repeated in the daily vocabulary.

The European tradition of proverbs and sayings is very similar to ours in meaning and content. How can this be explained? Of course, our extremely connected historical past and common monotheistic religion. If desired, you can easily find analogues of Russian morality within the folklore of other European peoples.

Russian variant	European analogue
Without difficulty, you can not catch fish from the pond.	Patience brings roses (German proverb).
Hunger is not my aunt.	The need for law is written (the French proverb).
A friend in need is a friend indeed.	Find a friend - how to find the treasure (Italian proverb).
Whoever hurts - that's what he says.	Whoever has a sin in his soul - that's more about him and screams (the Spanish proverb).
The truth does not seek mercy.	Clean hands do not need to (English proverb).

As can be seen from the comparative table, the meaning of the listed clever phrases is the same, despite the fact that they are present in the lexical usage of peoples of different countries.

Folk wisdom of other countries

When confronted with the cultural heritage of immigrants from other continents, a huge source of wisdom is found. These abstruse phrases carry in themselves a lot of information, convey the meaning of life of these people, their history and allow us to better understand their mentality.

For example, people in Europe and Russia know perfectly well that a real man does not cry. A true husband can not express his emotions in public, especially such as grief and disappointment. And in itself it is not necessary to "dismiss the nurse", you just have to take and do business. However, the Indians from North America because of this look at us with a grin:

• "A strong person cries, a weak person does not."
• "The weak is afraid of his feelings."
• "The soul has no rainbow, if there are no tears in the eyes."

So this people, who always lived among wild nature and did not know enlightenment, treated the manifestations of emotions - as a natural need of any being. Maybe you should listen to these wise phrases expressed by the representatives of the indigenous population of America?

On the example of the deep thought of the Chinese people, one can understand how differently we see, know and feel the world. Often philosophical phrases The people of the Heavenly Empire are so different from what we are accustomed to think of as wisdom, that you are wondering how you can feel the same land in different ways?

This is how the Chinese respond to the importance of man, his "I", which, according to the philosophy of Tao, does not exist at all:

• "There are you - nothing has increased, there is no you - nothing has decreased."

For Europeans and Russians, this sounds not just incomprehensible, but sad and depressing.

In addition, great importance for the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom has a search for peace. For them, he is a secret goal, to which man must strive to become one with nature. That is why the interesting phrases of this country are closely related to the description of trees and flowers. They often use the mention of spring.

The Chinese pay great attention to harmony and unity. The whole world in their view is just an echo of the Tao River, which flows in some other dimension. They are sure that at the end of the journey everyone is the same, regardless of who they were in this life. A lot of their sayings speak about this.

Quotes about power

Since the time of primitive existence, a person wants to be above the rest, he wants to lead the tribe. He dreams of commanding, managing, because he is confident that he knows best. Power is a terrible force, and not everyone deserves it. However, the desire to achieve a high status is one of those qualities through which people changed our whole world.

Particularly revered authority in Antiquity, mainly in ancient Rome, where civil activity was placed above all else. Interesting phrases we could hear from the lips of the people of that time:

• "I'd rather be the first in this village than the second in Rome" (Guy Julius Caesar, during a stopover for the night in a small village).
• "Edit means fulfilling duties" (Seneca).
• "Before you begin to command, learn to obey" (Solon of Athens).

In the future, the thirst for power never released humanity from its tenacious embrace. It becomes the object of the statement of many famous philosophers, politicians, writers and public figures. Each of them (like any other person, is not it?) Was harassed by questions of power. Perhaps because of their wisdom, they found answers to some of them, from which we can learn by looking at their clever phrases:

• "Violence, if it allows itself to hesitate, becomes power" (Elias Canetti).
• "The minister should not complain about the newspapers and even read them - he must write them" (Charles de Gaulle).
• "Power is given only to those who dare to bend over and take it" (Fedor Dostoevsky).

Many later, after the Middle Ages, saw in the root of all troubles - both in the need to obey, and in the desire to command. Philosophers and writers agreed that all people are equal, and the very concept of the world order, where one person can order another, is contrary to our high nature.

Alas! Humanity is still stuck at the level at which power is the most important engine of human emotion. People can not imagine how they can not obey.

Quotes about the war

However, we must also fight for power. After all, other people very, very much want to take it away. When two endless desires of power collide, war begins.

In the waging of wars, humanity has succeeded, and abstruse phrases about them flow like a river. That's what people do most often. They learn to fight from a small age, and so the war takes a lot of place in their minds. Some praise her, others give advice on how to avoid fighting conflicts, and others sneer.

Despite the fact that the war maims billions of lives, destroys thousands of countries, erases millions of cities and cultures from the face of the earth, it always has a place in someone's head. And the longer humanity exists, the more it realizes how much destructive energy war generates. We are trying harder to get rid of it. Declare war a war.

Previously, people talked about how great it is to fight. How much this shows true courage, valor, courage and patriotism. Now we are getting close to the fact that people realize that nothing good will kill another person.

• "War ... War never changes" (Fallout, video game).
• "Generals are an amazing case of delay in development. Who among us in five years did not dream of being a general? "(Peter Ustinov).
• "I do not know of any people who would have been enriched by the victory in the war" (Voltaire).
• "If we want to use the world, we have to fight" (Cicero).

Quotations about friendship

Since ancient times, friendship - is getting rid of loneliness, salvation and support. And betrayal is the most terrible sin, in the opinion of the majority of the peoples of the world. Take Dante at least - were not the traitors tormented in his worst, the ninth circle of Hell?

The veneration of friendship has found an important reflection in every culture of the world. Many felt it necessary to notice its importance. Phrases with meaning, telling about the power of friendly relations, are very often found in the sayings of great philosophers and writers of different times. Among them are such great names as Socrates, Aristotle, Johann Schiller, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain. All of them skillfully emphasize the quality of friendly relations.

• "Friendship is not such a pathetic light to go out in separation" (Johann Schiller).

The authors skilfully pass the force of friendship in a few words, which can not be broken. They speak the truth, surprisingly conveying in a few words the importance of true companionship.

Quotes about love

Love always had power over people. And sometimes it captured more than friendship, forcing to transcend principles. A person is hard without her. This feeling was visited by millions of people. The wiser they were, the more it absorbed them. Poets and musicians, writers and playwrights - many wrote only about her, about love. Intricate phrases are not to her face, she is only sincerity and honesty.

At the same time, it became a topic for speculation, a material for excellent manipulation. Thousands of monotonous works impose an image of false, not sensual, "obligatory" love in the life of everyone. But how does this look like? Clever phrases about this left us great people:

• "To resist love means to supply it with new weapons" (George Sand).

Quotes about Freedom

The man's desire to be free manifests itself with different strengths in different epochs. However often people now forget this, the desire to escape from someone's control and power lives in every person. And this despite the many factors that persist: war makes him a slave, friendship with someone bad takes away all the forces, and fake love forever deprives sleep and requires submission.

And only having got rid of all these misfortunes, you can become free. And it is to such freedom that people always strive, it is for it that they are ready to die. Philosophical phrases of great people make us think: how free are we?

This supreme struggle - for one's own will - is aimed precisely at the first, bestial and gregarious features-the desire of power. And when every person, even the smallest, kills the king inside himself, and when everyone starts to "squeeze out the slave by drop," then we can talk about a free world. The world, where everyone has the right to make a mistake. Where one person can not kill another, not because they will punish him for this, but because he does not give himself internal law.

• "The people, accustomed to live under the rule of the sovereign and thanks to the occasion become free, hardly keep freedom" (Niccolo Machiavelli).
• "A person who sacrificed freedom for security does not deserve either freedom or security" (Benjamin Franklin).
• "Only by losing everything to the end, we gain freedom" (Chuck Palahniuk).

Quotes about the meaning of life

Every person from time to time is interested in: "In the name of what we exist and came to this world?" Phrases about the meaning of life, probably have more puzzles than answers. With them you can argue and not share the opinions of their authors. And this is correct, because for each person the answer to this question is individual. And from what he will be, his future, goals and desires depend.

However, this does not hurt to listen to more intelligent people. Expressions and phrases of those who sought the meaning of life, can help us and guide us in the right direction.

• "The meaning of life is to achieve perfection and tell others about it" (Richard Bach).

Funny Quotes

And what does a person have to do when he renounced the thirst for power and war, had loyal friends, learned true love, found freedom and found the meaning of life? Of course, one thing is to laugh with happiness.

Despite all sorts of clever phrases, Human life, above all, is incredibly ridiculous. In all its tragedy, sorrow, and misery, it continues to remain ridiculous. And only the wisest, the most subtle people understood this with all their heart. For example, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was able to laugh at his own grief: "How so! So much is terrible and bad in our life, but it is claimed that it is ridiculous! "Exactly he, feeding the whole family with the daily work of a writer in his youth, dying from consumption, having buried his brothers, never tasted taste of grief for taste ... But in that And the fact is that the stronger a person is, the more he is able to ridicule himself about his troubles.

And great and wise people understood this. None of those whose beautiful phrases are presented above, never missed the opportunity to joke. Laughter is the main proof of a person alive with the soul. Here are some of their famous ironic utterances:

• "I did not fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong" (Benjamin Franklin).
• "Assassins and architects always return to the crime scene" (Peter Ustinov).

Conclusion

Phrases with a meaning that is deeply hidden in them, will never lose their relevance. Such here they are in themselves - aphorisms, an important part of human culture. After all, how much intelligence is needed to accommodate your strong message in one or two sentences! Already only for this possession of rhetoric and eloquence of a person can be called wise.

After all, it's such a big work - a well-cut phrase. Examples clearly show that people always, at all times, worried the same thing. The nature of man is immutable and, judging by everything, will remain so for a long time. Therefore quotations, aphorisms and proverbs will remain an inexhaustible source of the main treasure - mind and wisdom.