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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIslamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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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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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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Those who want to be offended don’t have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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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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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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