Democracy Is The Only System That Persists

Agnosticism Is A Perfectly Respectable And Tenable Philosophical Position; It Is Not Dogmatic And Makes No Pronouncements About The Ultimate Truths Of The Universe. It Remains Open To Evidence And Persuasion; Lacking Faith, It Nevertheless Does Not Deride Faith. Atheism, On The Other Hand, Is As Unyielding And Dogmatic About Religious Belief As True Believers Are About Heathens. It Tries To Use Reason To Demolish A Structure That Is Not Built Upon Reason.

Real Loneliness Consists Not In Being Alone, But In Being With The Wrong Person, In The Suffocating Darkness Of A Room In Which No Deep Communication Is Possible.

When We Have "second Thoughts" About Something, Our First Thoughts Don't Seem Like Thoughts At All - Just Feelings.

Nobody Can Be So Amusingly Arrogant As A Young Man Who Has Just Discovered An Old Idea And Thinks It Is His Own.

Take Away Grievances From Some People And You Remove Their Reasons For Living; Most Of Us Are Nourished By Hope, But A Considerable Minority Get Psychic Nutrition From Their Resentments, And Would Waste Away Purposelessly Without Them.