The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.