Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.