A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don't mind, and it doesn't matter.

Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

The road to Hell is paved with the best of conscious intentions.

The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

Buddhists and Taoists of the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan share the same roots and instructions and have always maintained sound exchanges.

The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.