It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

The "little theme" from Vinteuil, heard by Swann as emblematic of his love for Odette, remains a point of reference for him, as the character of that love changes and as the love eventually fades.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.

The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.

To be closer to god, be closer to people.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

Free your mind from the colonization of thinking within the obtuse parameters of 'right' and 'left', of conservatives and liberals.