Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.

Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

I said about Van Jones . Be careful. This guy is extraordinarily dangerous and he is smart.

Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.