Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.

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.

Let us Build the Boat first to cross the River.

How to change the world:• spread positivity• bring people up instead of dragging them down• treat others the way you wish to be treated

Implore yourself to continue to Action Past Your Devil’s Advocate.

The only true experience is of the immediate present

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.

If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.