Quotes About Philosophy

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Look, most players can't stand to be outplayed by an opponent's bluff. Quite honestly, though, it doesn't bother me that much.

My philosophy is to attack the opponents near their own goal because your own way to the goal is not as along, if you get the ball higher up.

I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.

That was something. As opposed to nothing.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

My philosophy is to respect the opposition off the field and play it as tough as possible on it.

I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.

I would say that, between us, I tend to be a little bit more philosophically optimistic. Jonah, I think he sees things as more finite.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

I'm predisposed to believe we live in a complicated, enmeshed reality. There's no authentic or organic.

I don't believe in organised happiness.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.