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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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