I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

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.

Yesterday was good, but let us dream and work hard to make tomorrow even better.

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough.

Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.

Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.

People tend to sit where there are places to sit

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.