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- If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
- Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.
- Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be…
- Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them…
- The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point…
- Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had…
- Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
- I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion…
- I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden
- Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.
- I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.
- Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought…
- Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths…
- I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
- The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of…
- God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a…
- You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time…
- The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
- There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
- The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
- And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will…
- Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid…
- If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life.…
- If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle