Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We should not have had either the Nazis or the Communists if that had happened.

All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.