Moses Quotes

I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters.

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.

I don't want to kick people in the face with my music, I'm just vibing. It's a very cool vibe.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.

The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.

I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.

No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls.

I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.

Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.

Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes

You have to have already convinced yourself that you are going to win no matter what other influences are.

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

Judaism is an historical religion.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.