... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either.

Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.

Imagine, for a moment, that you are the universe.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Water is the soul of the Earth.