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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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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 one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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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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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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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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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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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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