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.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

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

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.