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 HITCHENS
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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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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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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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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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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