Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
TIM MINCHINFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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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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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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