Quotes About Philosophy

The world is round; it has no point.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

to understand is always an ascending movement; that is why comprehension ought always to be concrete. (one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.) —Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

Martial arts gave me everything in life. It is not about a paycheck; it is about how I live my life.

We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

Hell is other people.

If I stay working with Pep Guardiola, if he wants me, he's just going to be a lucky man because I will be really hungry. I am the type of player for his philosophy and the way he likes his team.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.

I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.