"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"and so it goes away. Puzzling."
"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses."
"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."
"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."
"…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself."