The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.

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

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

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.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

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