I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Playing is a game. Love is an act. Don't pretend to love someone when all you plan to do is play. Love is not a game. It is a lifetime commitment.

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

You always miss 100% of the shots you don't order

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.

If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

Running a business without marketing will kill it.

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If theres patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.