This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.
Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give your children to form their morals.
Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
