Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

The World would be a safer place If someone had a plan Before exploring Outer Space To find the Inner Man.

Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.

It's hard to be always the same person.

I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection

The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.

Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.

Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping