To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
It’s probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.
The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.
The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.
Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.
It especially annoys me when racists are accused of ‘discrimination.’ The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one ‘race’ to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.
All of life is a wager.
A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one’s attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.
The gods that? we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults.
Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator – that’s beyond my conceit.
I’m very happy by myself – I’m lucky in that way – if I’ve got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.