True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.

If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

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.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.