To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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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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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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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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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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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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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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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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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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