We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

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.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.

Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game

It's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to be the only guaranteed big-money thing. I don't know.

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.