Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.