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Although a lot has changed in social biology and ethology since this book was originally published in 1976, “The Selfish Gene” brought me numerous insights which made my respect for Dawkins grow immensely. I’ll explain why. First of all: the book can...more |
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“The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”
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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticid...
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"Boa, quando vi que você tava lendo esse do Koestler marquei pra ler também.
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“Ser radical é tomar as coisas pela raiz. Mas, para o homem, a raiz é o próprio homem.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like "living" does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.”
― Richard Dawkins
The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like "living" does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.”
― Richard Dawkins
“The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
“A partir do momento em que é reconhecido, o absurdo é uma paixão, a mais dilacerante de todas.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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