[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.

The fundamental thing about human languages is that they can and should be used to describe something; and this something is, somehow, the world. To be constantly and almost exclusively interested in the medium - in spectacle-cleaning - is a result of a philosophical mistake.

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.