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Great Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when…
- To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or…
- The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if…
- High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
- One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the…
- The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity,…
- When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer…
- Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it…
- Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:…
- The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not…
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong