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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.