Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

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

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

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

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