There are no good reasons to believe in god.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

When your freedom depends on the death of an innocent, it haunts you forever, ' Red thought empathetically. 'Even if you couldn’t save them anyway.

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.