I Should Not Really Object To Dying

Once We Have Taken The Backward Step To An Abstract View Of Our Whole System Of Beliefs, Evidence, And Justification, And Seen That It Works Only, Despite Its Pretensions, By Taking The World Largely For Granted, We Are Not In A Position To Contrast All These Appearances With An Alternative Reality. We Cannot Shed Our Ordinary Responses, And If We Could It Would Leave Us With No Means Of Conceiving A Reality Of Any Kind.

Perhaps The Belief In God Is The Belief That The Universe Is Intelligible, But Not To Us.

Any Reductionist Program Has To Be Based On An Analysis Of What Is To Be Reduced. If The Analysis Leaves Something Out, The Problem Will Be Falsely Posed.

We Are An Episode Between Two Oblivions.

The Universe Has Become Not Only Conscious And Aware Of Itself But Capable In Some Respects Of Choosing Its Path Into The Future--though All Three, The Consciousness, The Knowledge, And The Choice, Are Dispersed Over A Vast Crowd Of Beings, Acting Both Individually And Collectively.