“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.”

“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.”

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

“Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.”

“Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.”

“The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.”

“Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.”

“Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.”

“What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.”

“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”