If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
If you are going through hell, keep going.