My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier.

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not d…

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

In the sixth century B.C., Gautama, an Aryan princeling on the northern frontier of India, formulated a bleakly pessimistic philosophy that markedly resembles …

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine.