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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

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When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?
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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
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To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason – to believe something by faith – is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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Inculcating the various competing – competing, note – falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
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And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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It takes a certain ingenuous faith – but I have it – to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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It doesn’t have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being – Everything is full of wonder.
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Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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