Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

My philosophy is very simple. I want my fans to come to theatres and watch my films and enjoy. I ensure that they get their money's worth.

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of...

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

The Soft Pack's self-titled full-length debut is straighter than black coffee, and twice as bitter: Frontman Matt Lamkin isn't afraid to fly his philosophical flag and face hard realities.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The...

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable,...

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.