The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.

Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?