Quotes About Philosophy

If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and naturally, hope there is no God. I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.

The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

When you talk about a million bucks, if you think about it very carefully, it's not that much money, if you start to divide it. You have to figure out a philosophy as to whom you want to give it to.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.

He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

People will say, "there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.