Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

I know you’re scared, Letti, but sweetheart…you haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve not known true fear...

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round.

Greyson Chance says it's gold, so it must be gold.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

I've done everything I could to the best of my ability. Thank you for the unconditional love and cyber hugs. You inspire me.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.