"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.

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.

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.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.

Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?

When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.