Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.

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.

Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.

Why do we have to humiliate someone to crack a joke??? Do what u would like people to do with u..

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them.

If you are living in a beautiful house surrounded by beautiful environment, you know not where to stay, inside or outside?

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.