The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
TIM MINCHINWe have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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