Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way

"Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard-or try to turn back-the measureable advances that we have made.