Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.
A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.
[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i. e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.
How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
I never have anything to talk about.
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.