We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

And of course death can't be conquered...but oh, the battle can be glorious.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.