The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.
Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
. . . a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.
Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.
the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.
I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)
Dangerous climate change. . . It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.