Quotes About Philosophy

In most kung fu films, they want to create a hero who's always fighting a bad guy. In the story of Ip Man, he's not fighting physical opponents. He's fighting the ups and downs of his life.

I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them, there's no use getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them, what's the use in getting upset?

I'm not at all upset to be considered a crime novelist. But for me, it's never really about the crime or the violence. I'm much more interested in exploring issues.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

I do not know. [summarising his life's work]

You don't have to believe in Feng Shui for it to work. I just know it brings me money.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.