Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

In logic, there are no morals.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Anything you can do, I can do meta

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Explore your own peace.

A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.

I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk.

I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.

You know, your clothes may say disco, but your eyes say rock n roll.

It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.