Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant

It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil