The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.