The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud…

Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all…

— Eugene H. Peterson

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern…

— Sam Harris

“Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or saddled them…

— Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“She’d thought Troy stank: the corpse piles, the fires, the fish guts thoughtfully left out for the gods—gee fucking thanks, guys, just what we…

— Stephen King

“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.”

— J.S.B. Morse

Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

— Bill Bryson

“Critical thinking is an unavoidable part of growing up. We do not become adults without it. But in the modern world, this stage often…

— Marcus J. Borg

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

— George Sanders

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the…

— Anonymous

“Different groups in the [Middle East] drew two lessons from [return of the shah in Iran] - one, that Americans were willing to use…

— Bernard Lewis

The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London…

— Clive James