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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThere is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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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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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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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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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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