To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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 Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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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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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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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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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
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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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In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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