Philosophy Quotes

"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."

- Alfred Jarry

"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."

- Stephen Hawking

"God is a verb, not a noun."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

"Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life."

- Helio Gracie

"Jiu jitsu is the science and art of control that leads to submission."

- John Danaher

"The essential characteristic of jiu jitsu is very simple. It’s the science and art of control that leads to submission."

- John Danaher

"What differentiates Brazilian jiu jitsu from most martial arts is the employment of positional strategy."

- Nic Gregoriades

"The most important part of jiu jitsu is the middle of the way. It’s the path between one position and another – the transition – that makes the difference between a mediocre fighter and an unbelievable fighter."

- Renzo Gracie

"It’s my belief that [the] highest level of jiu jitsu is encountered off the mat. Life is just one big jiu jitsu match."

- Nic Gregoriades

"It’s such an honest and open form of competition, your whole body, spirit and mind, against another person’s, where there is a clear and definitive winner."

- John Danaher

"You can train a martial art, or a martial sport, such as jiu-jitsu, which is both, for sportive uses."

- Rigan Machado

"The deepest benefits of Jiu Jitsu come off the mat. It encourages a worldview based upon the idea of rational problem-solving. Jiu Jitsu is all about solving problems that are rapidly changing under stress"

- John Danaher

"I think the most valuable thing today I have, is to display and inform people [about] how important the invisible aspect of jiu-jitsu is. It’s the fight you fight with your brain, with your spirit, but not with your physicality."

- Rickson Gracie

"The guiding principle behind ju is the idea of a weaker (gentler) force overcoming a stronger force through the application of technique, or jitsu, rather than strength and aggression."

- Renzo Gracie & John Danaher

"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."

- Elizabeth Bowen

"Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand."

- Leo Durocher

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

- Blaise Pascal

"The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it."

- Barry Commoner

"Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking."

- Nina Simone

"Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts."

- T.S. Eliot

"Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh."

- Mark Twain

"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

- Bertrand Russell

"Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity."

- Immanuel Kant

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds."

- Dante Alighieri

"Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

- Aristotle

""The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.""

- James Branch Cabell

"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

- Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Baseball is life."

"Baseball is life; the rest is just details."