Bruce lee's quotes of wisdom and philosophy

Here are few of my favorite quotes from Bruce Lee. Very good food for thought !


"All types of knowledge, ultimately self knowledge."

"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing."

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. "Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."

"If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love."

"Thoughts are things."

"The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think."

The timeless moment. — "The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time."

"Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement."

Seek to understand the root. — "It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming."

"What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds "body feel" and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity."

"The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality — to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle."


Try to digest these for now and think about the insight this man has to life and reality because of his devotion to a form of art and not by doing some PhD.
I know from experience that when you involve passionately in anything (and I mean anything!) be it studying, boxing, football, martial arts, singing, acting, writing, climbing, swimming....... anything..... you start to get philosophy out of it, the deeper you go you start to deduce things about life and reality you start to understand the similarity between that sports, arts etc and Life.

You can always compare a real situation to a similar situation in that field in which you have become philosophically involved.
Hence you become wise in life as a whole just from the experiences in that particular field.

I fore example get philosophy, experience and insight mostly from my soccer playing.