Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Three Italians sitting around a kitchen table without food or drink is a sure sign of trouble.

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

Individual liberty is individual power.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.

It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.