Philosophy Quotes

"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."

- Alan Watts

"Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so."

- Alan Wilson Watts

"The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that 'where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.'"

- Alan Wilson Watts

"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."

- Mewtwo

"I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be."

- Robin Williams

"If it’s the Psychic Network, why do they need a phone number?"

- Robin Williams

"Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."

- Robin Williams

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."

- Robin Williams

"Death – to blink for an exceptionally long period of time."

- Robin Williams

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

- Vladimir Nabokov

"History is written by the victors."

- Winston Churchill

"Ideas shape the course of history."

- John Maynard Keynes

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

- Nikola Tesla

"The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two."

- Douglas Adams

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."

- Isaac Asimov

"The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"The martial arts are non-combative because these martial artists think actual fighting doesn’t express goodness or mystic insight."

- Keith Vargo

"Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend."

- Jackie Chan

"Jeet Kune Do uses no way as way. The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to proper execution of all physical action."

- Bruce Lee

"A weapon isn`t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it."

- Jet Li

"The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"All war is based on deception."

- Sun Tzu

"In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which."

- G.R.R. Martin

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."

- Henri-Louis Bergson

"Death–to blink for an exceptionally long period of time."

"Truck driving is a lifestyle, not a job."

"Martial arts is a way of life, not just a sport."