Moral Philosophy
Bobby Fischer,
when asked if he was a genius:
"Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win, I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not."
Creative Philosophy
From
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, by William Blake:
Then I asked: 'does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it so?'
[Isaiah] replied: 'All poets believe that it does, & in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing.'
Philosophy of Learning
The Master said, 'Ssu, do you think that I am the kind of man who learns widely and retains what he has learned in his mind?'
'Yes, I do. Is it not so?'
'No. I have a single thread binding it all together.'
Confucius, The Analects.
Social Philosophy
Give what you can, take what you need.
General Strategy for Dealing with Life
Smile and nod.