Quotes About Philosophy

I'm a jiu-jitsu guy and that's my root.

I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby's just a game.

We moralize among ruins.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

As a huge admirer of Vivekananda, I love reading 'Sayings of Vivekananda.'

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

Maybe other managers would see their team score one goal and then prefer to go back and counter-attack, then try to score the second goal. A lot of those managers are the best managers at the moment, but for me, it's very important to continue the way I play.

One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

I can tell you this: we at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC - in any way, shape or form.

The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.

My mind is my own church.

I don't have a gun, I've never owned one and never will.

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.

I don't believe in heaven, and I don't believe in hell as a place with flames where people are burning and having eternal pain. I don't believe in that at all. I believe in a place I call 'beyond.'

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.