To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.