We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.