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- It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty…
- Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
- It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical…
- The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was…
- In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We…
- It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
- Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost…
- Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary…
- Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded…
- The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word…
- It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This…
- [I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our…
- Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is…
- If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to…
- Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle