Quotes About Philosophy

Both at Barca and the Spanish national team we know that the best way to win is by sticking to our philosophy.

One of the last things that my dad and I discussed, and it sticks with me today, is that he no longer believed in the concept of Good Guy/Bad Guy. He believed in the idea that one guy is trying to beat the other. However, he would say, 'You can be a Good Guy/Bad Guy, or you can just be a star.'

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don't think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.

I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.