There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

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.

For a thinking man, the main thing is to develop that person within

As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother.

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.

It is better to receive than to do injury.

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

The best remedy for an injury is to forget it.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.