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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.