When we choose to reject those who live differently, we murder our humanity.

Belief about God is religion. Belief in God is faith.

Science explains the how.Philosophy explains the why.Free-thinkers need both.

The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.

Freemasonry is a spiritual practice that good men of every spiritual practice can agree upon.

Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.

Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.

When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red tape.

An ideologue is one who places agenda above truth.

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.