Philosophy Quotes

""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, The Book of Five Rings

""Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.""

- Masutatsu Oyama

""I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.""

- Anderson Silva

""The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.""

- Sun Tzu

""To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.""

- Sun Tzu

""All war is based on deception.""

- Sun Tzu

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Well, a fake reputation is all a man has."

- Flynn Rider

"That's the funny thing about birthdays, they're kind of an annual thing."

- Rapunzel

"If you can’t live longer, live deeper."

- Italian Proverb

"Oh well. C‘est la vie."

- Mother Gothel

"That’s the funny thing about birthdays, they’re kind of an annual thing."

- Rapunzel

"I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven't said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing."

- Tove Jansson

"The Lord gave us two ends: one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."

- Ann Landers

"It's the circle of life and it rules us all through despair and hope through faith and love till we find our place on the path unwinding in the circle-- the circle of life."

- Carmen Twillie

"It's the circle of life, and it moves us all."

- Mufasa

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

- Leonard Cohen

"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."

- Mary Oliver

"Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language."

- Lucille Clifton

"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."

- Umberto Eco

"Everyone dies two deaths. The first is when they put you in the ground and the second is the last time your name is spoken."

- Ernest Hemingway (paraphrase)

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously."

- Osho

"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy."

- Carl Sagan

"The heart of a man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too."

"He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate: he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge; that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty ; and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter."