All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.