Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSReligion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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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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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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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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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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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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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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