Quotes about Philosophy

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

You should be he himself--not Christians, but Christ.

And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

What's the worst thing about growing old?" she would ask them. They never thought about their age, was a common reply; they had once been adolescents, then they were thirty, fifty, sixty, and never gave it a thought, so why should they do so now?

Are you afraid?" asked Alma. "No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.

I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically