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.

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.

The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.

Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

It's always freezing on planes.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.