Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

There is nothing to be known about anything except an initially large, and forever expandable, web of relations to other things. Everything that can serve as a term of relation can be dissolved into another set of relations, and so on for ever. There are, so to speak, relations all the way down, all the way up, and all the way out in every direction: you never reach something which is not just one more nexus of relations.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?