Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists think that the chicken had "extrapolated" its observations into a theory, and that each feeding time added justification to that theory. Then one day the farmer came and wrung the chicken's neck. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusion.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.