“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire
Read MoreThose who can make you believe absurdities… (Voltaire)
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope
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Christopher Hitchens, Quotes, Science and Religion
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers any explanation of anything important. Christopher Hitchens
Read MoreOrganized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive towards children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. The bible may, indeed does contain a warrant for human trafficking, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and […]
Read MoreThose who deny reason cannot be conquered by it
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand
Read MoreContradictions do not exist.
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Ayn Rand, Questions to ask yourself, Quotes
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. (Ayn Rand)
Read MoreThe creative mind
The creative mind is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others (Ayn Rand)
Read MoreMoney demands that you…
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talents to their reason. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand
Read MoreMy greatest pet peeve is STUPIDITY
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Christopher Hitchens, Quotes
My greatest pet peeve is STUPIDITY – especially in its worst forms of bigotry and superstition. On every side, faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all more stupid. …the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations. […]
Read MoreWe owe a huge debt to Galileo
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Christopher Hitchens, Quotes
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge. Christopher Hitchens
Read MoreTake the risk of thinking for yourself
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Christopher Hitchens, Quotes
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way. Christopher Hitchens
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