Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.