Quotes About Philosophy

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

We play sometimes against teams with more individual quality than us, better players, bigger budgets, whatever, but we try to play our football. We don't try to change too much in our philosophy, in our model.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

We all have to believe in something in order to exist successfully in this world and to enjoy our time here, which is short. I know that.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people like to have these deep moral questions that don't come up in real life.

One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.

I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

To have a body is to suffer.

I don't believe in telling people you can suffer this life because you're rewarded in a future life.

Humans have an amazing capacity to believe in contradictory things. For example, to believe in an omnipotent and benevolent God but somehow excuse Him from all the suffering in the world. Or our ability to believe from the standpoint of law that humans are equal and have free will and from biology that humans are just organic machines.

Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It's to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there's a bit of suffering along the way.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.