Wilfrid Quotes

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.