If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

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

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

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

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.

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