“For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.”

“Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?”

“Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.”

“There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.”

“I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.”

“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.”