"Long ago I learned not to argue with Marxists and flat Earthers."

-Arthur C. Clarke

"A spiritual experience in and of itself is not transformative, abiding in divine presence is."

-Phil McLemore

"A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child."

-Dalinar in Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings

"We're not puppets on a string of DNA."

-Helen Fisher

"But among the First Men only a minority had ever been capable of wholehearted devotion. The great majority were by nature too much obsessed by private impulses."

-Olaf Stapledon in Last & First Men

"The older Puritans trampled down all fleshy impulses; these newer Puritans trampled no less self-righteously upon the spiritual cravings."

-Olaf Stapledon in Last & First Men

Most people will be honest. And incorrect. Honest incorrectness isn’t the same thing as lying.

-Harry Dresden, from The Dresden Files