You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.