Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

Patience is the transcendent radiance of a loving and tender heart which, in its dealings with those around it, looks kindly and graciously upon them.

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

Love: You can't start it like a car, you can't stop it with a gun.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, we trust her with the most important thing in our life.