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Out Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
- Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for…
- To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
- 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's…
- The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict…
- All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a…
- It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the…
- Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and…
- Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to…
- Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other…
- Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
- Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness…
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