Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

Music is music.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.