Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

And I'm okay with drowning.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

Word is a shadow of a deed.

I've been a vegan for about 15 years.

A secret makes a woman woman - Vermouth

You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?