I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.