In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“the ultimate standard, by which we determine all disputes, that may arise concerning them, is always derived from experience and observation. Where… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It's not always a question of you changing your mind. I think very often your mind changes you. You suddenly realise that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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