By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

The doors of hell are locked from the inside!