My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Every man is his own hell.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.