In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly be produced in factories through synthetic processes, cell cultures, and so on.

Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.

But Krishna was a chameleon.

Yes I am dark, but my eyes are full of stars.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?" -Mac

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Believe in your passions and act on them.