Thus it is brought prominently before us, that superstition’s chief victims are those persons who greedily covet temporal advantages; they it is, who (especially when they are in danger, and cannot he...
To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.
There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees i...
[M]ost people, most of the time, prefer to seek approval or security. [...] Nonetheless, there are in all periods who feel themselves in some fashion to be apart. And it is not too much to say that hu...
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when...
How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.
He was also dying, though we didn’t know it yet.
Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.
There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum...
The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person h...
Many readers are familiar with the spirit and the letter of the definition of prayer, as given by Ambrose Bierce in his Devil’s Dictionary. It runs like this, and is extremely easy to comprehend: Pray...
I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in t...
However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings. And there's one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I on...