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

- C. D. Broad

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…

- C. D. Broad

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

- C. D. Broad

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

- C. D. Broad

...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 …

- C. D. Broad

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…

- C. D. Broad

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

- C. D. Broad

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…

- C. D. Broad

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…

- C. D. Broad