Quotes About Philosophy

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

The first time I spoke to Avram Grant, my first question was about his conception of football. He gave me his answer and it was a good point.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.