Philosophy Quotes

"I think God's justice is making wrongs right."

"I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be."

"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."

"When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable."

"In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future."

"If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future."

"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

"I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship."

"I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny."

"I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning."

"I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny."

"Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike."

"I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?"

"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."

"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."