It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.