Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

Holy Crap, Kaitriana you are one wicked Witch.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times.

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

Force cannot give right.

The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.