Philosophy Quotes

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."

- Socrates

"In football [soccer], the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There’s something greater than the result, more lasting — a legacy."

- Xavi

"Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is."

- Johan Cruyff

"I created you. You created me."

- The Spot

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

- Salvador Dali

"We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."

- Frank Herbert

"And above all else, remember that the end of a movie (or a TV show, or a play, or a book) is never really the end."

- Jen Calonita

"There is always more after the ending. Always the next morning, and the next. Always changes, losses and gains. Always one step after the other. Until the one true ending that none of us can escape. But even that ending is only a small one, larges as it looms for us. There is still the next morning for everyone else. For the vast majority of the rest of the universe that ending might as well not ever have happened. Every ending is an arbitrary one. Everything ending is from another angle, not really an ending."

- Ann Leckie

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

- Orson Welles

"Plan for what is difficult while it is easy. Do what is great while it is small."

- Sun Tzu

"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It's the same story the crow told me It's the only one he know Like the morning sun you come And like the wind you go"

- Ponstubine

"Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens"

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor"

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife."

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death"

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"War is a competition of incompetence—the least incompetent usually win."

- Pakistani General A.A.K. Niazi

"What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass."

- Lord Melbourne

"Peace—in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

- Ambrose Bierce

"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

- Ambrose Bierce

"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."

- Ted Koppel

"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

- Lawrence Durrell

"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."

- Milton Friedman

"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."

- Jacques Chirac

"A life need not be long-lived for it to be meaningful."

"A life may last just for a moment, but memory can make that moment last forever."

"If it could’ve happened any other way, it would’ve."

"A turtle travels oceans, not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape them"