Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Both life and work were a great more reewarding when you didn't take them quite so seriously

I think it must be one of those things where no one’s wrong and everybody loses.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.