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.

Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. . . . William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no factual reason to suppose that what is natural is good (or at least better) and what is unnatural is bad (or at least worse).

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.