If you’re afraid – don’t do it, – if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
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.
I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.