MADRID, Nov. 17 (EDITIONS)

Some philosophers have left phrases for history and for this reason, we have decided to collect some of the best phrases said by philosophers.

Truth, lies, women or freedom have been the focus of attention for philosophers from Ancient Greece to the present day. We invite you below with these quotes to reflect.

PLATO ON FREEDOM

“Freedom is in being masters of your own life”

DESCARTES, ON IGNORANCE

“I would give everything I know, for half of what I don’t know”

ANAXAGORAS, ON DECEPTION

“If you cheat on me once, it’s your fault; if you cheat on me twice, it’s mine”

MANN, ABOUT THE TRUTH

“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie”

NIETZSCHE, ON MAN AND GOD

“Is man just a failing of God, or is God just a failing of man?”

MARX ON SPAIN

“Perhaps no other country, except Turkey, is so little known and so poorly judged by the rest of Europe as Spain is.”

MARÍA ZAMBRANO, ABOUT LONELINESS

“Only in solitude do you feel the thirst for truth”

SOCRATES, ON CONSCIOUSNESS

“A good conscience is the best pillow to sleep on”

CHOMSKY ON EDUCATION

“The purpose of education is to show people how to learn for themselves. The other concept of education is indoctrination.”

CONFUCIUS, ON THE TREATMENT OF OTHERS

“Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you, nor do to yourself what you would not do to others”

CICERON ON WAR

“A bad peace is always better than the best of wars”

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, ABOUT WOMEN

“The problem of women has always been a problem of men”