Quotes About Philosophy

The big thing is to win, but to look at the long-term, you need one way to play, and the philosophy is not only to put 11 players on the pitch and play football.

There are lots of different ways to play football; I choose one in my career. I believe in that one.

Cruyff's idea was, quite literally, to play football - nothing more, nothing less. His idea of how football should be played was based not on controlling the opponent, but on the ball and the game.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based on the works of French poet Rene Daumal.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

Logic is pointless.

I'm a firm believer in karma. By doing good, good things eventually find you. I don't have an American Express Black Card, but I like to think that I would if I could fill it with karma points.

I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

I'm a conservative classical writer.

A Socrates in every classroom.