Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.