“The middle ground, roughly halfway between poetry and mathematics, is where philosophers can make their best contributions, I believe, yielding genuine clarifications of deeply puzzling problems.”

“The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver.

Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“"There are two errors in the the title of this book." --A sourcebook of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes and problems, Robert M. Martin, p. 4,”

“Middle age begins with marriage; for then work and responsibility replace carefree play, passion surrenders to the limitations of social order, and poetry yields to prose.”

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“I believe that the best government that will yield to peace, is one decided by people. Not by a liberator in this case.”

“I'm pro-choice, but I believe that most abortions are immoral. I take the nuanced middle ground.”

“If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.”

“The warfare between poetry and philosophy certainly started with Plato, who was both poet and philosopher.”