Quotes About Philosophy

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

Our philosophy always teaches us that you can have intense activity, but inside, you have to have peace. The office has to reflect that.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it 'Le Milieu Divin,' but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.

Santayana wrote, "The empiricist…thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than seeing." That

Soyen Shaku saw America as a natural place for the dharma to grow and evolve.

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Being right and being happy are on opposite ends of this dance that is the life of human machines.

It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

Basically, you deny one less God than I do. You don't believe in 2,999 gods. And I don't believe in just one more.

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?