The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.