Quotes About Philosophy

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.

Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play football. I cannot control the other circumstances.

Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

From my point of view, we have the two communities: the tech community on one side and the rather social-scientific, philosophical community on the other side. We have, from my impression, a disconnect between the two sides.

I love Sarri's philosophy. We play high, with a lot of possession in a technical way.

The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.

'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing so fast.

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

The universe is chaotic and meaningless, and it's good to laugh about it. That's my stance on life, actually. Some people go through life grinding their teeth, suffering and banging their head against the wall. I'm glad that's not the reaction that occurs in me.

I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.