True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

Insight is vision through the ‘mind’s eyes.

Liberty to the honest man is license to the criminal.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.

I don't know how you can live on the planet and not care about the environment. It's our globe, we share it.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.