No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that’s all around us.
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