Behind every mystery lies another mystery.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.