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

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.

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.

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

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

You're not given a big dream, without the ability to achieve it

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.