Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but making time to look at the beauty of clouds can give you peace of mind

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

Some people look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why?' I look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why not?'

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.

I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

There is nothing like being on stage.

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.