Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.

Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.

As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as read more

As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in read more

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not read more

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important read more

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.