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

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

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.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

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

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