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"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens

tags: reason, science, skeptic

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"Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name."
— Sam Harris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason)

tags: faith, reason, religion, science, skeptic

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"We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man."
— Sam Harris

tags: faith, reason, religion, science, skeptic

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"Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illumined no longer by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope."
— Joris-Karl Huysmans (Against Nature)

tags: courage, religion, skeptic

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