The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Being afraid does not define your character, but what you do in the face of fear does.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

The characters in Person of Interest are unique in incredible way.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).

Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.