Philosophy Quotes

"The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football."

- Wayne Rooney

"I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach—as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle."

- Angela Davis

"The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity."

- R. C. Sproul

"Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?"

- Allen Ginsberg

"Of chess, it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess."

- William Napier

"Chess is as much a mystery as women."

- Purdy

"In Chess, just as in life, today's bliss may be tomorrow's poison."

- Assaic

"Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess"

- William Ewart Napier

"The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is"

- David Bronstein

"Chess is life"

- Bobby Fischer

"Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science"

- Baron Tassilo

"To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe"

- Hindu proverb

"For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every Chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime"

- Eduard Gufeld

"Life is like a game of chess, in which there are an infinite number of complex moves possible. The choice is open, but the move made contains within it all future moves. One is free to choose, but what follows is the result of one’s choice. From the consequences of one’s action there is never any escape"

- Shelley Smith

"What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life."

- Joseph Brodsky

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

- Karl Marx

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

- Victor Hugo

"Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul."

- Jones Very

"The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me."

- Svetlana Alexievich

"The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul."

- Ralph Peters

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself."

- Slavoj Žižek

"Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

- Alan Watts

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

- Alan Watts

"We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us."

- Alan Watts

"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."

- Alan Watts

"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

- Alan Watts

"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."

- Alan Watts

"Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it."

- Alan Watts