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

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.