The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

Bein Crazy is the least of my worries.

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.