If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.