[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting.

You cannot rationalize what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called truthization. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

I only want power so I can get books.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

There is light in the world, and it is us!

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.