Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.
Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities
The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.
To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.
That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.
The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.
Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?
No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.
Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness
I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed
Courage is the rarest of all good traits
Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.
If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs
It is a world of lies that permeates the Left
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