Philosophy Quotes

"Why should things be easy to understand?"

- Thomas Pynchon

"Life is puzzle unsolved."

- Santosh Kalwar

"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it"

- Isadora Duncan

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

- George Bernard Shaw

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach."

- Mary Roach

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country's first president?"

- The Ultimate Warrior

"People are lost. Their feelings are based around material things, and because that doesn't make them happy, they look for something else: bullfighting or soccer, or they go travelling, off to India - and that's not right. You can't just decide, 'I'm going on holiday to India.' Only when God allows you to. You have to ask His permission to go there."

- Justo Gallego

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

"Testing is an infinite process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous in order to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous."

- James Bach

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

- William A. Foster

"In the race for quality, there is no finish line."

- David T. Kearns

"Quality is everyone's responsibility."

- W. Edwards Deming

"Quality is not just meeting customer needs, it's also meeting future expectations."

- Masaaki Imai

"Quality is when the customer comes back, not the product."

- Hermann Tietz

"Dance is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

- George Bernard Shaw

"A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Charter boats are like books with no covers."

- Tania Aebi

"A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be."

- Aubrey de Selincourt

"We each have our oceans and seas that we travel on."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death."

- William Alexander

"To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of clearing up. After each one looms another, whose shores are even more attractive, more suggestive. Certainly, it requires strength and perseverance to get to windward of problems, but there is no greater delight than to reach new shores, and even to sail, as Camoëns says, “through seas that keel has never cut before.” If you will now open a bank-account of attention for me, I foretell sun-smitten landscapes and promise archipelagoes."

- José Ortega y Gasset

"But that’s how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn’t enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm."

- Carsten Jensen

"One who expresses one’s self through dance is a dancer. One who expresses one’s self through a dancer is a dance teacher."

- Unknown

"Life is a question and how we live it is our answer."