From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't.

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.

The understanding gained in examining a life itself comes to permeate that life and direct its course. To live an examined life is to make a self-portrait.

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Sunday is my favorite day.

I have some role models. In Brazil, they are mostly writers. A writer named Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto is my favorite. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is also a very important figure for me.

You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.

My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.

In the twilight glow I can see her blue eyes crying in the rain. When we kissed and parted I knew wed never meet again. Love is like a dying ember and only memories remain.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

If nothing else came out of all of this debacle over Obamacare, one thing that should is a class-action lawsuit against the University of Chicago Law School for people that had Obama as their constitutional law professor.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Trust is knowing that when a team member pushes you, they are doing it because they care about the team.

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

Clinton's a schmuck.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.