No morality can be founded on authority even if the authority were divine.

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.

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear I can't lie.

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not.

Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.