The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.