“Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.”

“As belief in one's capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed...”

“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the faminesome estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alonebut the rotund, jowly ...”

“Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.”

“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowl...”

“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”

“The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject...”

“My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.”

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

“Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by...”

“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanati...”