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Reason Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for…
- Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.…
- If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
- I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
- The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be…
- A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to…
- Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary…
- I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you'…
- In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often…
- People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by…
- The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one.…
- In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or…
- 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…
- The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire…
- Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some…
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough