“But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.”

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

I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is … for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.

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.

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist’s assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

I saw a Divine Being. I’m afraid I’m going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

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.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

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

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a ‘reality’transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which “God” appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour’s feet.

Your family immigrated to this country – whether they came over on the Mayflower or whether they came over on a raft last year.

We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn’t.