In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

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.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

So I've seen life as one long learning process.