If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… and of aviation.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.