“We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.”

Define yourself by what you love.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.

Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.

You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.

Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.

I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Who’s the world going to revolve around now?

Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…

The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are.

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.

I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.

There has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.