Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
TIM MINCHINThere is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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