Eric Johnston Quotes

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since.

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

'Trill' is a combination of 'true' and 'real.' It's my philosophy.

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

I know very much what I believe.

I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.

We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.

Let us ask ourselves seriously and honestly, 'What do I believe after all? What manner of man am I after all? What sort of show would I make after all, if the people around me knew my heart and all my secret thoughts?" What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?'

I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.