Serious Rational Criticism Is So Rare That

The Fundamental Thing About Human Languages Is That They Can And Should Be Used To Describe Something; And This Something Is, Somehow, The World. To Be Constantly And Almost Exclusively Interested In The Medium - In Spectacle-cleaning - Is A Result Of A Philosophical Mistake.

The Moral Decisions Of Others Should Be Treated With Respect, As Long As Such Decisions Do Not Conflict With The Principle Of Tolerance.

With Regards To Political Enemies Plato Had A Kill-and-banish Principle. ... In Interpreting It , Modern-day Platonists Are Clearly Disturbed By It, Even As They Make Elaborate Attempts To Defend Plato.

Philosophers Should Consider The Fact That The Greatest Happiness Principle Can Easily Be Made An Excuse For A Benevolent Dictatorship. We Should Replace It By A More Modest And More Realistic Principle - The Principle That The Fight Against Avoidable Misery Should Be A Recognized Aim Of Public Policy, While The Increase Of Happiness Should Be Left, In The Main, To Private Initiative.

There Can Be No Ultimate Statements Science: There Can Be No Statements In Science Which Can Not Be Tested, And Therefore None Which Cannot In Principle Be Refuted, By Falsifying Some Of The Conclusions Which Can Be Deduced From Them.