Atheism, A Term Which Will, I'm Sure,

I Don't Think The 9/11 Attacks Taught Us Anything We Didn't Already Know About Religion. It Has Long Been Obvious - Even To The Deeply Religious - That Religious Fanaticism Is An Extremely Dangerous Deranger Of Otherwise Sane And Goodhearted People.

An Inert Historical Fact Is Any Fact About A Perfectly Ordinary Arrangement Of Matter In The World At Some Point In The Past That Is No Longer Discernible, A Fact That Has Left No Footprints At All In The World Today.

The Chief Trick To Making Good Mistakes Is Not To Hide Them - Especially Not From Yourself. Instead Of Turning Away In Denial When You Make A Mistake, You Should Become A Connoisseur Of Your Own Mistakes, Turning Them Over In Your Mind As If They Were Works Of Art, Which In A Way They Are.

When People Ask Me What Philosophy Is, I Say Philosophy Is What You Do When You Don't Know What The Right Questions Are Yet. Once You Get The Questions Right, Then You Go Answer Them, And That's Typically Not Philosophy, That's One Science Or Another. Anywhere In Life Where You Find That People Aren't Quite Sure What The Right Questions To Ask Are, What They're Doing, Then, Is Philosophy.

The Secret Of Happiness Is: Find Something More Important Than You Are And Dedicate Your Life To It.