Quotes About Philosophy

Every session we do we try and talk about the way we want to play, I try to organize the sessions in a way that the players can understand the way I want them to play.

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.

Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.

I remember Arsene Wenger very well from our time in Japan. I like the way his teams play, with an offensive mentality - it is a philosophy I share. I think he gets the best out of the players he has, and this is the key to his success.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

Violence is never an acceptable outcome in the exercise of free speech.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

The BJP has a positive outlook towards the country and that is my philosophy towards life.

I was a judo player as a kid, and I think a lot of the concepts in judo as a kid played over. It influenced my style and has been a center point of what I do.

Well Socrates is 70 when he dies. He's been allowed to philosophise freely in the city for almost 50 years. He clearly was - genius is an overused word - but he clearly did have something of the genius about him.

Plan for Success is a staple of management philosophy, particularly in our high-tech industries. It leads us to pour desired outcomes into concrete, and make commitments based on achieving those outcomes. Plan for Success is the intellectual equivalent of: Make big bucks by winning fifteen consecutive hands of blackjack without taking any money off the table till the end. It works when it works, but leaves you in the lurch when it doesn't (which is most of the time).

But now his life had weight.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

To live in accordance with nature, therefore, was to live in accordance with God. Male or female, Greek or barbarian, free or slave, all were equally endowed with the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Syneidesis, the Stoics termed this spark of the divine within every mortal: 'conscience'. 'Alone of all creatures alive and treading the earth, it is we who bear a likeness to a god.'48

There's nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it's basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

We're the noblest savages of all.