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

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.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Everybody has something to tell. Everyone has a story. I want to know yours.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?