AI makes philosophy honest

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

Even if it's a lie, even if it's a dream, please turn to me.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.