Data without generalization is just gossip.

Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.