While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

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.

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

Don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.

It is not what happens to us that causes our pain and suffering, it is our thinking pattern and perception of our experiences that create our reality and contribute to our well-being or suffering

Belgium is the best remedy against patriotism.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.

For it is easier to shout 'Stop', than to do it

Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.