Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.