One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. …[This] convention protects them, and so they proceed with their blather unwhipped and almost unmolested, to t...
What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a contrast group. This is why it is confusing...
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one...
The conflict between science and religion has a single and simple cause. It is the designation as religiously canonical of any conception of the material world open to scientific investigation....As a matter of fact, most of the dogmatic religions ha...
For when God is said by these things to try men and prove them, to see what is in their hearts and whether they will keep His commandments or no, we are not to understand, that it is for His own information, or that He may obtain evidence Himself of ...
Children are defenseless to the ‘virus of dualism’ in whatever form it comes in - which is why [religious ideas] should not be introduced until [children reach] a cognitive age. Religious indoctrination is not required to raise healthy children. ...
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge ...
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.
Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.
It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.
My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.
