Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

A gramme is better than a damn.