None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being..

It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. ….

Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it.

What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply….

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern alread….

When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint….

It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is….

The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they d….

Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our f….

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. Th….

The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is….

Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes..