Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy..

...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic ….

Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that….

It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it wo….

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information..

As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to….

the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to th….

Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact..

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a….

I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts which….