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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.

Christopher Hitchens

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Form Stupidity Superstition Yourself
There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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Faith Noise People Research Science White
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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Existence High Principle
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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Break Off Conversation Friendship Remember Sin
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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Each Other Faith Leaving Myself
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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Happiness Risk Thinking Truth Way Yourself
Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Country Himself Wife
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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Goodness Moral Ordinary Religion Universe Yourself
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Essence Independent Mindset Thinking
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.
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Around Conscious Fake Philosophy Question Way
Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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Determination Enough Fantasy Mad Offend Possible
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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Member Myself Party Science Struggle
Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Appreciation Favorite Irony Virtue
Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Argument Explanation
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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Astronomy End Philosophy Place Religion
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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Death People Prayer See Yourself

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.

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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.

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