If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

I have a big problem with Islam.

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

Ego's time is limited. Let us not go behind that. Patience is eternal. Let us celebrate it.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do really awful things, and he will get a job over me.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.