“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”

“[This] science is the work of the human mind, which is destined rather to study than to know, to seek the truth rather than to find it.”

“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”

“Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.”

“After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore.”

“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”

“If we believe that there are some irreducibly normative truths, we might be believing what we ought to believe. If there are such truths, one of these truths would be that we ought to believe that there are such truths. If instead we believe that there are no such truths, we could not be believing what we ought to believe. If there were no such truths, there would be nothing that we ought to believe.”

“The truth is, if we become comfortable with who we are rather than who we think we should be, then we will be less insecure.”

“The notion that we need a higher power, that’s more a human failing than a reflection of reality. The universe pays no attention to what we need. Truth is what it is, and the inconveniences it might cause us don’t change anything.”

“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.”