Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

Whatever I see, I trust my eyes, trust my reads, trust the guys running routes and kind of just let it go.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Facing issues of this magnitude, it's unreasonable to think that anyone comes to the investigation with no personal hopes or preexisting beliefs.

Among this pool are these: (a) explanatory power, (b) explanatory scope, (c) plausibility, (d) degree of ad hoc-ness and (e) conformity with other beliefs. The more explanatory power and scope and the more plausibility and conformity with other beliefs an explanation has, the better it is. The less ad hoc (adjusted, contrived, artificial) the explanation, the better as well. The trick is to subject all explanation options to these criteria.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.