It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.