Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.