The violence in the Bible is appalling.

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.

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are - flaws and all.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

My body is an instrument for me to use.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.