Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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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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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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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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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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